CVE-2019-11539: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerability

Published Apr 26, 2019
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Updated

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4, 8.3RX before 8.3R7.1, 8.2RX before 8.2R12.1, and 8.1RX before 8.1R15.1 and Pulse Policy Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.2, 5.4RX before 5.4R7.1, 5.3RX before 5.3R12.1, 5.2RX before 5.2R12.1, and 5.1RX before 5.1R15.1, the admin web interface allows an authenticated attacker to inject and execute commands.

Other sources

Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure allows an authenticated attacker from the admin web interface to inject and execute commands.

— CISA

Affected Software

170 affected components
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.1r1.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r1.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r1.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r2.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r3.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r3.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r4.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r4.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r5.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r5.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r6.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r7.0
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2r7.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.2rx
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.3
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=8.3rx
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r2
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r2.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r3
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r3.1
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0r3.2
PulseSecure Pulse Connect Secure=9.0rx
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r1.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r1.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r2.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r2.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r3.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r3.2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r4.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r5.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r6.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r7.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r8.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r9.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r9.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r10.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r11.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r11.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r12.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r12.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r13.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.1r14.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r1.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r2.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r3.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r3.2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r4.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r5.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r6.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r7.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r7.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r8.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r9.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r9.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r10.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2r11.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.2rx
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r1.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r1.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r2.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r3.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r3.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r4.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r4.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r5.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r5.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r5.2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r6.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r7.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r8.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r8.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r8.2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r9.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r10.
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r11.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3r12.0
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.3rx
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r2.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r3
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r4
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r5
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r5.2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r6
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r6.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4r7
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=5.4rx
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0r1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0r2
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0r2.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0r3
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0r3.1
PulseSecure Pulse Policy Secure=9.0rx
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r1.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r1.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r10.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r11.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r11.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r12.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r12.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r13.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r14.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r2.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r2.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r3.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r3.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r3.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r4.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r4.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r5.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r6.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r7
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r7.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r8.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r9.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r9.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.1-r9.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r1.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r1.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r10.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r11.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r12.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r2.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r3.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r3.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r4.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r4.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r5.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r5.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r6.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r7.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r7.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r7.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r8.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r8.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r8.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.2-r9.0
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r1.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r2.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r3
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r4
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r5
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r5.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r5.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r6
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r6.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=8.3-r7
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r1
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r2
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r2.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r3
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r3.1
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r3.2
Ivanti Connect Secure=9.0-r3.3
Ivanti Policy Secure=9.0-r1
Ivanti Policy Secure=9.0-r2
Ivanti Policy Secure=9.0-r2.1
Ivanti Policy Secure=9.0-r3
Ivanti Policy Secure=9.0-r3.1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 9.0R3.4
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 8.3R7.1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 8.2R12.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 8.1R15.1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 9.0R3.2
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 5.4R7.1
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 5.3R12.1
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 5.2R12.1
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 5.1R15.1

Event History

Apr 26, 2019
CVE Published
via MITRE·01:39 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·01:39 AM
DescriptionSeverity
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:29 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Nov 3, 2021
Known Exploited
via CISA·12:00 AM
Known Ransomware
via CISA·12:00 AM
Sep 8, 58459
Event
09:02 AM
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Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2019-11539?

CVE-2019-11539 has a high severity rating due to the potential for remote code execution.

2

How do I fix CVE-2019-11539?

To fix CVE-2019-11539, upgrade to the patched versions of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure specified in the advisory.

3

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11539?

CVE-2019-11539 affects several versions of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure prior to their respective patches.

4

Is CVE-2019-11539 a remote code execution vulnerability?

Yes, CVE-2019-11539 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system remotely.

5

What should I do if I cannot update to a fixed version for CVE-2019-11539?

If unable to update, consider implementing network segmentation and strict access controls to mitigate the risk of exploitation for CVE-2019-11539.

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