Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link

Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link

Stop us if you've heard this one before: a remote-code execution vulnerability needs patching in Pulse Secure VPNs.


Professional code-probers at GoSecure uncovered a host of security flaws, including CVE-2020-8218, which it publicly disclosed this week after a patch was issued. The other holes are yet to be addressed, and so details on those remain under wraps for now.


What we do know is that CVE-2020-8218 can be exploited to execute code on the VPN system by tricking an administrator into, say, opening a URL.


That Pulse Secure VPN you're using to protect your data? Better get it ..

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