CVE-2019-11510: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure contains an arbitrary file read vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker with network access via HTTPS to send a specially crafted URI.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An arbitrary file read vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to access files via specially crafted URIs.
- Who is affected
- Any deployment of Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure with network access via HTTPS is affected.
- Urgency
- Immediate remediation is necessary as exploitation is possible and the vulnerability is critical.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Pulse Connect Secure to resolve the issue.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11510
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2019-11510Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-11510 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Ivanti Pulse Connect
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22894: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Collaboration Suite Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2019-11539: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22893: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Use-After-Free Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-8260: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22899: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-8243: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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