Pulse Secure Desktop Client vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product69 versions
The short answer

Pulse Secure Desktop Client is made by Pulsesecure. We track 18 published vulnerabilities in it, across 69 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Pulse Secure Desktop Client, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Pulse Secure Desktop Client vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Pulse Secure Desktop Client's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Pulse Secure Desktop Client flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 2.8%

    In Pulse Secure Pulse Desktop Client and Network Connect, an attacker could access session tokens to replay and spoof sessions, and as a result, gain unauthorized access as an end user, a related issue to CVE-2019-1573.

    CVSS8.1Published12 Apr 2019
  2. 2.3%

    A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R9 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability is fixed using encrypted URL blacklisting that prevents...

    CVSS4.9Published28 Oct 2020
  3. 2.1%

    A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 has Remote Code Execution (RCE) if users can be convinced to connect to a malicious server.

    CVSS8.8Published28 Oct 2020
  4. 2.0%

    A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 is vulnerable to the client registry privilege escalation attack.

    CVSS9.8Published28 Oct 2020
  5. 1.7%

    A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 could allow the attacker to perform a MITM Attack if end users are convinced to connect to a malicious server.

    CVSS7.5Published28 Oct 2020
  6. 1.1%

    An information exposure issue where IPv6 DNS traffic would be sent outside of the VPN tunnel (when Traffic Enforcement was enabled) exists in Pulse Secure Pulse Secure Desktop 9.0R1 and below.

    CVSS7.5Published28 Jun 2019
  7. 0.9%

    Pulse Secure Desktop Client 5.3 up to and including R6.0 build 1769 on Windows has Insecure Permissions.

    CVSS5.5Published29 Nov 2018
  8. 0.8%

    A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in PulseSecureService.exe in Pulse Secure Client versions prior to 9.1.6 down to 5.3 R70 for Windows (which runs as NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM) allows unprivileged users to run a...

    CVSS7.0Published16 Jun 2020
  9. 0.8%

    An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R8.

    CVSS4.6Published28 Jul 2020
  10. 0.7%

    A vulnerability in the authenticated user web interface of Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R9 could allow attackers to conduct Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) through the CGI file.

    CVSS5.4Published28 Oct 2020
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We track 18 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Pulse Secure Desktop Client, across 69 versions.

None of Pulse Secure Desktop Client's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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