critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2024-21887Ivanti Connect Secure — Command Injection in the Web Components

Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure let an authenticated administrator smuggle system commands through their web components. Chained with the authentication bypass CVE-2023-46805, it becomes unauthenticated RCE on the appliance.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Patch Connect Secure and Policy Secure now, or take them out of service; treat any internet-facing appliance as compromised and hunt before returning it to production.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.1/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2024-01-12
Added to KEV
2024-01-10
Exploit published
Yes
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190, T1059
Severity
critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsAdministrator authentication on an affected appliance (9.x, 22.x) — in practice supplied by chaining the authentication bypass CVE-2023-46805.

Behind the card

4 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
title, summary, cvss, severity, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, remediation.patch_available, referencesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.prerequisites, recommended_actioncisa.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2024-21887 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07