CVE-2024-21894
A heap overflow vulnerability in IPSec component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure allows an unauthenticated malicious user to send specially crafted requests in-order-to crash the service thereby causing a DoS attack.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.0%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
A heap overflow vulnerability in IPSec component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure allows an unauthenticated malicious user to send specially crafted requests in-order-to crash the service thereby causing a DoS attack. In certain conditions this may lead to execution of arbitrary code
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 18.99% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787, CWE-703
- Affected
- ivanti/connect secure · ivanti/policy secure
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
EPSS 19.0% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/SA-CVE-2024-21894-Heap-Overflow-CVE-2024-22052-Null-Pointer-Dereference-CVE-2024-22053-Heap-Overflow-and-CVE-2024-22023-XML-entity-expansion-or-XXE-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure-Gateways?language=en_USVendor Advisory
- https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/SA-CVE-2024-21894-Heap-Overflow-CVE-2024-22052-Null-Pointer-Dereference-CVE-2024-22053-Heap-Overflow-and-CVE-2024-22023-XML-entity-expansion-or-XXE-for-Ivanti-Connect-Secure-and-Ivanti-Policy-Secure-Gateways?language=en_USVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.