CVE-2024-21893

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

As of , CVE-2024-21893 in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Neurons is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 31 January 2024
US federal deadline
2 February 20242 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
KnownCISA changed it from Unknown to Known on 8 October 2025.
EPSS score
0.99Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
No score that dayThe EPSS file of the day CISA listed it has no score for it.
Public exploit
1 Metasploit module
Fix
Vendor advice: forums.ivanti.comLinks below, from CISA's entry.

What CISA says to do

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

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS, formerly known as Pulse Connect Secure), Ivanti Policy Secure, and Ivanti Neurons contain a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the SAML component that allows an attacker to access certain restricted resources without authentication.

CISA's description

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) and Ivanti Neurons for ZTA allows an attacker to access certain restricted resources without authentication.

The CVE record's description, from hackerone

CVE published
31 January 2024
Assigned by
hackerone
CVSS
8.2 High (CVSS 3.0, from the CNA)
CWE-918
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
yes
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  3. The US federal deadline to fix it.
  4. CISA changed its entry. Ransomware use: Unknown to Known. Edited: notes.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

  • Metasploit: Ivanti Connect Secure Unauthenticated Remote Code Executionexploit module, rank excellent

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