CVE-2018-20193 (GCVE-0-2018-20193)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:58
VLAI
Summary
Certain Secure Access SA Series SSL VPN products (originally developed by Juniper Networks but now sold and supported by Pulse Secure, LLC) allow privilege escalation, as demonstrated by Secure Access SSL VPN SA-4000 5.1R5 (build 9627) 4.2 Release (build 7631). This occurs because appropriate controls are not performed. Specifically, it is possible for a readonly user to change the administrator user password by making a local copy of the /dana-admin/user/update.cgi page, changing the "user" value, and saving the changes.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106289 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/37 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2018-12-21 00:00
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