CVE-2018-16261: Pulse Secure Desktop Client

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Pulse Secure Pulse Desktop Client 5.3RX before 5.3R5 and 9.0R1, there is a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability with Dynamic Certificate Trust.

Affected products

• Pulse Secure Pulse Secure Desktop Client: version 5.3r1 only; version 5.3r1.1 only; version 5.3r2 only; version 5.3r3 only; version 5.3r4 only; version 5.3r4.1 only; …

Published 2018-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.