CVE-2020-8250 — Improper Privilege Management in Pulse Secure Desktop Client

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege ManagementCWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 42.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Pulsesecure Pulse Secure Desktop Client
Timeline
PublishedOct 28
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client (Linux) < 9.1R9 could allow local attackers to escalate privilege.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-w2pq-cm6g-6wj7: A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client (Linux) < 9↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-8250: A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client (Linux) < 9↗2020-10-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Microsoft
The Linux kernel before version 5.8 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:serial8250_isa_init_ports() that allows local users to cause a denial of service ↗2020-11-10
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Red Hat
kernel: NULL pointer dereference in serial8250_isa_init_ports function in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c↗2020-07-21
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