CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-11455

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The vulnerability in diag.cgi in Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators when attempting to start tcpdump due to a lack of anti-CSRF tokens.

Risk Assessment

Attackers may gain access to sensitive administrative operations, potentially leading to serious security breaches in the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of the software that includes security patches and to implement anti-CSRF tokens.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

diag.cgi in Pulse Connect Secure 8.2R1 through 8.2R5, 8.1R1 through 8.1R10 and Pulse Policy Secure 5.3R1 through 5.3R5, 5.2R1 through 5.2R8, and 5.1R1 through 5.1R10 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests to start tcpdump, related to the lack of anti-CSRF tokens.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS