What is CVE-2017-11193?

CVE-2017-11193 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-07-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-11193?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure

CVE-2017-11193

Pulse Connect Secure 8.3R1 has CSRF in diag.cgi. In the panel, the diag.cgi file is responsible for running commands such as ping, ping6, traceroute, traceroute6, nslookup, arp, and Portprobe. These functions do not have any protections against CSRF. That can allow an attacker to run these commands against any IP if they can get an admin to visit their malicious CSRF page.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.006 (43.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pulsesecure Pulse_connect_secure — versions 8.3r1.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11193?: CVE-2017-11193 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-07-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-11193?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.