CVE-2019-11539: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure allows an authenticated attacker from the admin web interface to inject and execute commands.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- An authenticated attacker can inject and execute commands via the admin web interface.
- Who is affected
- Authenticated users of the admin web interface.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Apply the latest security patch provided by Ivanti.
AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11539
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2019-11539Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2019-11539 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Ivanti Pulse Connect
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
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- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22900: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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