SA44676 - December 08 2020 OpenSSL Security Advisory

On December 08 2020, the OpenSSL project announced a new security advisory. These issues may affect Pulse Secure product.

Refer to KB43892 - What releases will Pulse Secure apply fixes to resolve security vulnerabilities? per our End of Engineering (EOE) and End of Life (EOL) policies.

The OpenSSL advisory can be found at the following link: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt

Pulse Secure is currently evaluating the following issues reported by OpenSSL:

As the investigation continues, we recommend subscribing to this advisory as it will be periodically updated to reflect the current status.

EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (CVE-2020-1971)
4.3 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
 

Pulse Connect Secure	Resolved in 9.1R12 (Tentative for Q3, 2021)
Pulse Policy Secure	Resolved in 9.1R12 (Tentative for Q3, 2021)
Pulse One	Resolved in Pulse One 2.0.2004
Pulse Secure vADC	Not Vulnerable

We will update the KB as and when we have new updates.

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Document History:
January 18, 2021 - Initial advisory posted.
March 31, 2021 - Added fixed release for Pulse One
May 11, 2021 - Added fixed release for PCS/PPS