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CVE-2026-12646

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Missing Authorization Enables Authenticated RCE in Ivanti Neurons for ITSM

CVSS 3.1
9.9 critical
EPSS
1%p66
Published
()
Modified
AI analysis

CVE-2026-12646 is a missing authorization flaw (CWE-862) in Ivanti Neurons for ITSM in which privileged requests are not properly permission-checked. A remote attacker holding any valid low-privilege account can send crafted network requests that bypass the authorization check and execute arbitrary code on the server; the changed scope (S:C) in the CVSS score indicates compromise can extend beyond the vulnerable component itself. Successful exploitation has critical impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability (CVSS 3.1 9.9). Any organization running Neurons for ITSM on a release before 2026.2 is affected; the fix shipped in the 2026.2 release as part of a batch of ten Ivanti patches covering EPMM, Neurons for ITSM and Sentry. Exploitation status: no known in-the-wild exploitation, no public proof-of-concept, not listed in CISA KEV, and EPSS estimates roughly a 1.2% probability of exploitation within 30 days.

What to do: Upgrade Ivanti Neurons for ITSM to version 2026.2 or later, which remediates this flaw alongside the other fixes released in the same patch batch. Because exploitation requires an authenticated low-privilege account, review accounts with access to the ITSM server, audit recent authenticated activity for signs of abuse, and restrict network exposure of the server as interim mitigation. Consult Ivanti's advisory for the full set of related EPMM, Neurons for ITSM and Sentry fixes to ensure nothing is missed during patching.

Affected
Ivanti Neurons for ITSMall versions before 2026.2
Estimated exposure
moderatelikely on the order of thousands of customer deployments (tens of thousands of internal users), exact count unknown — Neurons for ITSM is an enterprise IT service management platform typically deployed as one instance per customer organization (self-hosted or SaaS); no public install or scan counts are available, so the magnitude is extrapolated from…

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description

A Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ivanti Neurons for ITSM before 2026.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server.

Weakness
CWE-862
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

In the news

Ivanti EPMM, Neurons and Sentry Vulnerabilities Enable Privilege Escalation and RCE Attacks

Ivanti patched ten CVEs across EPMM, Neurons for ITSM and Sentry, including critical unauthenticated deserialization RCE; no active exploitation reported.

On September 8, 2026, Ivanti disclosed advisories covering ten CVEs in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), Neurons for ITSM, and Sentry. The most severe are two unauthenticated deserialization RCE flaws in Neurons for ITSM, CVE-2026-12744 and CVE-2026-12745 (CVSS 9.8), plus three missing-authorization RCE bugs rated 9.9 and three authenticated deserialization RCE flaws. EPMM has CVE-2026-18851 (CVSS 8.8), an authenticated privilege escalation flaw, and Sentry has CVE-2026-83527 (CVSS 8.1), an authentication bypass. Ivanti reports no evidence of active exploitation; cloud/SaaS ITSM was patched on August 9, 2026, while on-premises 2025.2 through 2026.1 require September 2026 patches.

Ivanti Patches Critical Flaws Across Enterprise Security Products

Ivanti released September updates fixing six critical RCE flaws in Neurons for ITSM plus authentication bypasses in Sentry and EPMM; no exploitation seen.

Ivanti's September 2026 updates fix eight flaws in Neurons for ITSM, six of them critical remote code execution bugs with CVSS scores up to 9.9, including missing authorization issues (CVE-2026-12647, CVE-2026-12645, CVE-2026-12646) and deserialization flaws (CVE-2026-12650, CVE-2026-12744, CVE-2026-12745). Sentry releases R10.8.2, R10.7.3, and R10.6.4 patch CVE-2026-83527, an unauthenticated high-severity authentication bypass, while EPMM versions 12.10.0.0, 12.9.0.2, and 12.8.0.4 fix the authenticated bypass CVE-2026-18851. Ivanti says it is not aware of any exploitation in the wild. Citrix separately patched two medium-severity flaws in Workspace app for Windows.

Ivanti Patches 10 EPMM, Neurons for ITSM and Sentry Flaws Enabling RCE and Admin Access

Ivanti patches 10 flaws in EPMM, Neurons for ITSM, and Sentry, including two 9.8-rated unauthenticated RCEs in ITSM.

Ivanti released fixes for 10 vulnerabilities across Endpoint Manager Mobile, Neurons for ITSM, and Sentry, and said it was not aware of active exploitation at disclosure. The most severe are CVE-2026-12744 and CVE-2026-12745, unauthenticated deserialization RCEs rated 9.8 in Neurons for ITSM, alongside authenticated deserialization and missing-authorization RCEs rated up to 9.9. CVE-2026-18851 is an 8.8-rated EPMM privilege escalation to administrator, and CVE-2026-83527 is an 8.1-rated unauthenticated authentication bypass in Sentry granting administrative access. Ivanti said the ITSM weaknesses were found using large language models; Cloud/SaaS fixes shipped August 9, 2026, and on-premises patches are available from September 2026.