A server-side request forgery vulnerability in the SAML component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x)…

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

1. 2024-01-31 CISA SSVC: exploitation active
2. 2024-01-31 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/linux/http/ivanti_connect_secure_rce_cve_2024_21893)
3. 2024-01-31 Added to CISA KEV
4. 2024-01-31 Published
5. 2024-02-02 CISA patch deadline

Added

2 y ago (2024-01-31)

Patch by

2024-02-02 (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, Policy Secure, and Neurons

CISA name

Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Neurons Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) 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

2 y ago (2024-01-31)

100.00% 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
• Nuclei template Ivanti SAML - Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) nuclei detection template

• Ivanti ICS
• Ivanti IPS
• ivanti connect_secure
• ivanti policy_secure

Weakness

• CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

Technology feeds

• Ivanti rss critical rss

• forums.ivanti.com /s/article/CVE-2024-21888-Privilege-Escalation-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure?language=en_

  vendor-advisory

• cisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-21893

  government-resource, us-government-resource

• CVE List CVE-2024-21893
• NVD CVE-2024-21893

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