CVE-2019-11539 — Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerability
Overview
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure allows an authenticated attacker from the admin web interface to inject and execute commands.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2019-11539
- Vulnerability
- Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Ivanti
- Affected products
- Ivanti: Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2021-11-03
Remediation guidance
CVE-2019-11539 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Ivanti the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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