What is CVE-2016-4789?

CVE-2016-4789 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-26.

How severe is CVE-2016-4789?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Ivanti Connect Secure

CVE-2016-4789

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the system configuration section in the administrative user interface in Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.2 before 8.2r1, 8.1 before 8.1r2, 8.0 before 8.0r9, and 7.4 before 7.4r13.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.011 (62.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Ivanti Connect_secure — versions 8.1, 8.0, 8.2
Pulsesecure Pulse_connect_secure — versions 8.1r1.0, 7.4
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4789?: CVE-2016-4789 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2016-05-26.
How severe is CVE-2016-4789?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.