CVE-2020-8218: Pulse Connect Secure Code Injection Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.2. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-03-07. EPSS: 32.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allows an attacker to crafted a URI to perform an arbitrary code execution via the admin web interface.

Affected products

• Ivanti Connect Secure: up to and including 9.0; version 9.1 only
• Ivanti Policy Secure: version 9.1 only
• Pulse Secure Pulse Policy Secure: up to and including 9.0

Published 2020-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.