CISA KEV entry
CVE-2023-46805Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure. Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 10 January 2024.
Data status: a source is stale
Last synced CISA catalogue version 2026.11.04 (released 4 November 2026) 1,768 entries Updated manually
- Date added
- 2024-01-10
- Federal due date
- 2024-01-22 12 days after it was added; passed at the sync of 2026-11-05
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- Forensic triage (BOD 26-04)
- No
- CVSS
- 8.2 High CVSS 3.1, scored by nvd@nist.gov
- EPSS
- 99.98% percentile 99.9, scored 2026-11-04
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact partial
- NVD status
- Analyzed published 2024-01-12, -2 days before the KEV listing
BOD 26-04 remediation window
With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: yes, technical impact: partial), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days on a publicly exposed asset (row 2) and 14 days on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 10) S06. The catalogue due date, 12 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.
What CISA says
Short description
Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS, formerly known as Pulse Connect Secure) and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component that allows an attacker to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks. This vulnerability can be leveraged in conjunction with CVE-2024-21887, a command injection vulnerability.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
Please apply mitigations per vendor instructions. For more information, please see: https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/KB-CVE-2023-46805-Authentication-Bypass-CVE-2024-21887-Command-Injection-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure-Gateways?language=en_US ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46805
CWE in the catalogue
CWE-287
Official links
- CISA KEV catalogue entry cisa.gov
- NVD record nvd.nist.gov
Vendor advisory and patch links
References NVD tags Vendor Advisory or Patch, exactly as NVD lists them.
Links in CISA's notes
NVD details
- CWE (NVD)
- CWE-287 by nvd@nist.gov
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N- CVSS versions in NVD
- V30, V31
- Last modified in NVD
- 2026-10-01T21:17:17.487
Where each value comes from
| Field | Source | Fetched, UTC | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue fields | CISA KEV JSON, version 2026.11.04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| NVD published, status, CVSS, CWE, vendor links | NVD CVE API 2.0; CVSS: NVD (nvd@nist.gov) | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current at 2026-11-05 11:38 |
| EPSS | FIRST EPSS API, scores of 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| CISA SSVC | CISA ADP (via NVD), record of 2026-10-01 | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current |
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