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Organizations using Pulse Secure’s mobile VPN should patch vulnerabilities reportedly being exploited in the wild, possibly by a “Chinese espionage actor”.
The patch–available here–is considered important enough that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies a deadline of April 23 to apply them.
CISA’s guidance states that federal users of Pulse Connect Secure VPNs must use the company’s free utility to ascertain whether their devices are vulnerable.
If the vulnerability is found, affected government Pulse Secure software and appliances have to be immediately isolated from the network and a full report has to be made. In addition to the vulnerability detection tool, Pulse Secure has issued a replacement XML configuration file, which prevents the exploits from functioning when placed on affected devices.
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An attack group potentially acting in the interests of the Chinese government has exploited vulnerabilities including a zero day in the widely deployed Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliance to compromise government agencies in the United States and Europe, as well as several dozen other organizations to gather credentials, steal sensitive data, and place webshells on targeted appliances to maintain persistence.
Although researchers have not been able to pinpoint exactly when the attacks began, they have been ongoing for more than a year and could go back several years. Researchers at FireEye Mandiant uncovered the activity targeting Pulse Secure appliances while responding to customer incidents in recent months, and found that a group it now tracks as UNC2630, and possibly several other threat actors, have been exploiting several previously known flaws and one newly discovered vulnerability in the appliances. The new vulnerability (CVE-2021-22893) is a critical remote code exe
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