Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows a user to elevate privileges to that of an administrator.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-21888

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Ivanti

Product: ICS, IPS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 64.8% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 98.33% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-06 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: Total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21888
https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/CVE-2024-21888-Privilege-Escalation-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure?language=en_US

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