What is CVE-2017-17947?

CVE-2017-17947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2017-17947?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure

CVE-2017-17947

A cross site scripting issue has been found in custompage.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.0R17.0, 8.1.x before 8.1R13, 8.2.x before 8.2R9, and 8.3.x before 8.3R3 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 5.2R10, 5.3.x before 5.3R9, and 5.4.x before 5.4R3 due to one of the URL parameters not being sanitized. Exploitation does require the user to be logged in as administrator; the issue is not applicable to the end user portal.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (40.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Pulsesecure Pulse_connect_secure
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17947?: CVE-2017-17947 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2017-17947?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.