How severe is CVE-2023-46805?

CVE-2023-46805 has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 8.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 100.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2023-46805: Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Authentication Bypass Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-01-10

Remediation due

2024-01-22

Ransomware

Known use

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

CISA notes
Please apply mitigations per vendor instructions. For more information, please see: https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/KB-CVE-2023-46805-Authentication-Bypass-CVE-2024-21887-Command-Injection-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure-Gateways?language=en_US ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46805

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, 22.x and Ivanti Policy Secure allows a remote attacker to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks.

Severity

CVSS 3.0 · CNA8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2023-46805 to the KEV catalog 2 days before its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2024 is 21.5 days.
It is one of 37 Ivanti entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 11 added in 2024.
Its current EPSS score (100.0%) is higher than that of 96% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Ivanti	Ivanti ICS	9.1R18 to 9.1R18 22.6R2 to 22.6R2
Ivanti	Ivanti IPS	9.1R18 to 9.1R18 22.6R1 to 22.6R1

References

2 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2024-01-12

Last updated

2026-10-01

Assigner (CNA)

hackerone

Credited to

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