High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Apr 6, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-11581
CVE-2020-11581
Description
An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) through 2020-04-06. The applet in tncc.jar, executed on macOS, Linux, and Solaris clients when a Host Checker policy is enforced, allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to perform OS command injection attacks (against a client) via shell metacharacters to the doCustomRemediateInstructions method, because Runtime.getRuntime().exec() is used.
Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2020-04-06
- (no CPE)range: <=2020-04-06
- cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_policy_secure:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Pulse Secure/Pulse Connect Securedescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44426nvdVendor Advisory
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