CVE-2023-46805

What the flaw is

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.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

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

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

35 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack-2023-24
• 20142995/sectool
• ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• Chocapikk/CVE-2023-46805
• H4lo/awesome-IoT-security-article
• Hexastrike/Ivanti-Connect-Secure-Logs-Parser
• Hexastrike/Ivanti-Secure-Connect-Logs-Parser

Showing 8 of 35. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• forums.ivanti.com/s/article/KB-CVE-2023-46805-Authentication-Bypass-CVE-2024-2
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46805

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org