"Ivanti Ships Urgent Patch for API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability"

Ivanti's problems with security defects in its enterprise-facing products are starting to pile up. The IT software company recently shipped urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in the Ivanti Sentry (formerly MobileIron Sentry) product and warned that hackers could exploit the issue to access sensitive API data and configurations. In an advisory, Ivanti said the vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2023-38035, affects Ivanti Sentry versions 9.18 and prior and could be exploited by malicious hackers to change configuration, run system commands, or write files onto the system. Ivanti noted that if exploited, this vulnerability enables an unauthenticated actor to access some sensitive APIs that are used to configure the Ivanti Sentry on the administrator portal (port 8443, commonly MICS). While the issue carries a 9.8/10 CVSS severity score, Ivanti noted that there is a low risk of exploitation for enterprise administrations who do not expose port 8443 to the internet. The company has recommended that customers restrict access to MICS to internal management networks and not expose this to the internet. Ivanti said it was "aware of a limited number of customers impacted by CVE-2023-38035," but it is unclear if the issue is being exploited as zero-day in the wild. Ivanti's security problems have escalated in recent months with the release of patches for critical flaws in the Avalanche Enterprise MDM Product line, in-the-wild exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti EPMM, and documented APT activity targeting Ivanti zero-day flaws.

SecurityWeek reports: "Ivanti Ships Urgent Patch for API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability"