An authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, 22.x and Ivanti Policy Secure allows a remote attacker to ac…

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

1. 2024-01-10 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/ivanti_connect_secure_rce_cve_2023_46805)
2. 2024-01-10 Added to CISA KEV
3. 2024-01-12 Published
4. 2024-01-22 CISA patch deadline
5. 2026-10-01 CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Added

2 y ago (2024-01-10)

Patch by

2024-01-22 (2 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, Connect Secure and Policy Secure

CISA name

Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Groups reported to have exploited it in intrusions.

• DragonForce ransomware gang

reported by trendmicro.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
• T1078 Valid Accounts primary impact
• T1505.003 Web Shell secondary impact
• T1555 Credentials from Password Stores 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

partial

Assessed

38 d ago (2026-10-01)

99.98% 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_connect_secure_rce_cve_2024_21893 Ivanti Connect Secure Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2024-01-31
• Metasploit exploit/linux/http/ivanti_connect_secure_rce_cve_2023_46805 Ivanti Connect Secure Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2024-01-10
• Nuclei template Ivanti ICS - Authentication Bypass nuclei detection template
• packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176668/Ivanti-Connect-Secure-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

• Ivanti ICS
• Ivanti IPS

Weakness

• CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Technology feeds

• Ivanti rss critical rss

• packetstormsecurity.com /files/176668/Ivanti-Connect-Secure-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html

  exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

• forums.ivanti.com /s/article/CVE-2023-46805-Authentication-Bypass-CVE-2024-21887-Command-Injection-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and

  vendor-advisory

• cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-46805

  government-resource, us-government-resource

• CVE List CVE-2023-46805
• NVD CVE-2023-46805

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