A security vulnerability in MICS Admin Portal in Ivanti MobileIron Sentry versions 9.18.0 and below, which may allow an attacker to bypass…

cisa required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

1. 2023-08-21 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/ivanti_sentry_misc_log_service)
2. 2023-08-21 Published
3. 2023-08-22 Added to CISA KEV
4. 2023-09-12 CISA patch deadline
5. 2024-07-16 CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Added

3 y ago (2023-08-22)

Patch by

2023-09-12 (3 y ago)

Ransomware

Known to be used in ransomware campaigns

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vendor, product

Ivanti, Sentry

CISA name

Ivanti Sentry Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Groups reported to have exploited it in intrusions.

• Cactus ransomware gang

reported by bitdefender.com

Ransomware Vulnerability Matrix by BushidoUK (github.com/BushidoUK/Ransomware-Vulnerability-Matrix), reformatted per CVE. CC BY 4.0

How it is exploited and what it leads to, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

• T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application exploitation
• T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter primary impact
• T1018 Remote System Discovery secondary impact
• T1046 Network Service Discovery secondary impact
• T1071.001 Web Protocols secondary impact
• T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer secondary impact
• T1496 Resource Hijacking secondary impact
• T1557.001 LLMNR/NBT-NS Poisoning and SMB Relay secondary impact
• T1571 Non-Standard Port secondary impact

kev release 2025-07-28, att&ck v16.1. KEV to ATT&CK mappings by the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Mappings Explorer, Apache-2.0). © 2026 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation. Terms of use

Exploitation

Active, exploited in the wild

Automatable

yes

Technical impact

total

Assessed

2 y ago (2024-07-16)

99.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

• Metasploit exploit/linux/http/ivanti_sentry_misc_log_service Ivanti Sentry MICSLogService Auth Bypass resulting in RCE (CVE-2023-38035) metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2023-08-21
• Nuclei template Ivanti Sentry - Authentication Bypass nuclei detection template
• packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174643/Ivanti-Sentry-Authentication-Bypass-Remote-Code-Execution.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

• Ivanti MobileIron Sentry
• ivanti mobileiron_sentry

Weakness

• CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

• packetstormsecurity.com /files/174643/Ivanti-Sentry-Authentication-Bypass-Remote-Code-Execution.html

  exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

• forums.ivanti.com /s/article/CVE-2023-38035-API-Authentication-Bypass-on-Sentry-Administrator-Interface

  vendor-advisory

• cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-38035

  government-resource, us-government-resource

• CVE List CVE-2023-38035
• NVD CVE-2023-38035

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