CVE-2021-22893: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Use-After-Free 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 contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute code via license services.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure has a use-after-free vulnerability that allows remote code execution.
- Who is affected
- Users of Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent as the vulnerability is actively exploited and critical in severity.
- Action
- Apply the latest patches from Ivanti.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22893
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-2021-22893Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-22893 | 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.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22894: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Collaboration Suite Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2019-11539: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-8260: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22899: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2020-8243: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22900: Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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