Threats / Ivanti / CVE-2023-35082
CVE-2023-35082
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Verified 2026-09-19
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and MobileIron Core vulnerability
Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile and MobileIron Core contain an authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-287) allowing unauthorized access to restricted functionality. Actively exploited in ransomware campaigns.
Verdict
Today item, not a backlog item.
Authentication bypass in mobile device management platforms enables attackers to gain administrative control without credentials, facilitating lateral movement into enterprise networks and deployment of ransomware payloads across managed endpoints.
CISA KEV Yes · 2024-01-185Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.99999 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 103CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
942 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-01-18), flagged for known ransomware use.
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.99999 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 10 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Ivanti, Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and MobileIron Core. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.0, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-287 Improper Authentication — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 156 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a public proof-of-concept / detection template). Catalog entries: nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I bypass authentication controls to gain unauthorized access to the MDM platform.
Business
Attackers obtain administrative privileges to mobile device management infrastructure without valid credentials.
2
Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I enumerate and access restricted management functions and enrolled device inventories.
Business
Sensitive device configurations, user data, and corporate network topology become visible to threat actors.
3
Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I deploy malicious profiles, certificates, or applications to all managed mobile devices.
Business
Enterprise-wide mobile device compromise enables command execution and data exfiltration across the workforce.
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Data at risk — exfiltration narrative 4
Attacker
I use compromised devices as pivot points to access corporate networks and cloud services.
Business
Ransomware and destructive payloads propagate through trusted device channels into critical business systems.
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Lights out — disruption & extortion narrative 5
Attacker
I encrypt or exfiltrate data across the compromised infrastructure and demand ransom.
Business
Operations halt, data is held hostage, and recovery costs escalate across affected business units.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by hackeroneCNA
Credited with finding itNo finder is named in the public CVE record or the scanned vendor advisory — attribution scoped to the sources checked.
Found an error? Propose a correction.
A correction is a cited counter-claim — it must cite a source,
gets reviewed by a second human, and is never auto-applied. See the
correction convention and our identity
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