CVE-2021-22893 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure (formerly Pulse Connect Secure) versions 9.0R3/9.1R1 and higher. This flaw, exposed through the Windows File Share Browser and Pulse Secure Collaboration features, allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote arbitrary code execution on the gateway. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating extremely high exploitability, it poses a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, including by ransomware campaigns, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being readily available in common databases.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.0:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.0:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.0:r2.1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.0:r3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.