VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3985

medium
Published 2016-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client session restrictions feature in Pulse Connect Secure (aka PCS) 8.1R7 and 8.2R1 allow remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40166

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pulsesecurepulse_connect_secure8.1r7
pulsesecurepulse_connect_secure8.2r1

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.