Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure up to 2020-04-06 Applet tncc.jar Runtime.getRuntime.exec Shell Metacharacter os command injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure up to 2020-04-06. It has been declared as critical. This impacts the function Runtime.getRuntime.exec of the file tncc.jar of the component Applet Handler. Executing a manipulation as part of Shell Metacharacter can lead to os command injection. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2020-11581. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure up to 2020-04-06 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function Runtime.getRuntime.exec of the file tncc.jar of the component Applet Handler. The manipulation as part of a Shell Metacharacter leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) through 2020-04-06. The applet in tncc.jar, executed on macOS, Linux, and Solaris clients when a Host Checker policy is enforced, allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to perform OS command injection attacks (against a client) via shell metacharacters to the doCustomRemediateInstructions method, because Runtime.getRuntime().exec() is used.

The weakness was presented 04/06/2020. This vulnerability was named CVE-2020-11581 since 04/06/2020. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

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

See VDB-152789 and VDB-152787 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Os command injection
CWE: CWE-78 / CWE-77 / CWE-74
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Remote: Yes

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Advisory: git.lsd.cat
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-11581 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-11581
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-152788
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/07/2020 08:36
Updated: 05/17/2024 08:28
Changes: 04/07/2020 08:36 (39), 04/07/2020 08:41 (17), 10/07/2020 14:04 (1), 05/17/2024 08:28 (17)
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