Pulse Connect Secure 8.3R1 Admin Panel adminservercacertdetails.cgi certid Reflected cross site scripting

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Pulse Connect Secure 8.3R1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file adminservercacertdetails.cgi of the component Admin Panel. The manipulation of the argument certid results in cross site scripting (Reflected). This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-11194. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Pulse Connect Secure 8.3R1. Affected is an unknown code block of the file adminservercacertdetails.cgi of the component Admin Panel. The manipulation of the argument certid with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Reflected). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 07/12/2017. The weakness was published 07/12/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at sxcurity.pro. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-11194 since 07/12/2017. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at VDB-103502, VDB-103501 and VDB-103499. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Pulse Connect Secure

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• 8.3R1

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• commercial

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