Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-8260

Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution Vulnerability

Past due Added Federal deadline

What is affected

Vendor Ivanti
Product Pulse Connect Secure
Weakness CWE-434

The vulnerability

Pulse Connect Secure contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to perform code execution using uncontrolled gzip extraction.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 3 May 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 12:25. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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