What is CVE-2017-11194?

CVE-2017-11194 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-07-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-11194?

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

XSS in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure

CVE-2017-11194

Pulse Connect Secure 8.3R1 has Reflected XSS in adminservercacertdetails.cgi. In the admin panel, the certid parameter of adminservercacertdetails.cgi is reflected in the application's response and is not properly sanitized, allowing an attacker to inject tags. An attacker could come up with clever payloads to make the system run commands such as ping, ping6, traceroute, nslookup, arp, etc.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (48.7th 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

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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11194?: CVE-2017-11194 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-07-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-11194?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.