AI analysis
CVE-2026-83527 is an authentication bypass (CWE-288) in Ivanti Sentry that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative-level access to the appliance. It is triggered over the network with no prior privileges or user interaction, though the high-attack-complexity (AC:H) CVSS rating indicates exploitation depends on specific conditions rather than a trivially reliable path. A successful attacker obtains admin-level control of Sentry, the gateway component many organizations deploy alongside Ivanti EPMM/MobileIron for mobile device management, potentially exposing or disrupting device-management functions. Any organization running Ivanti Sentry on builds earlier than the fixed releases R10.8.2, R10.7.3, or R10.6.4 (depending on release line) is affected. No public proof-of-concept is known, the flaw is not in CISA's KEV catalog, and EPSS assigns a 1.5% probability of exploitation within 30 days, so active exploitation is not currently confirmed.
What to do: Upgrade Ivanti Sentry to R10.8.2 (or R10.7.3 / R10.6.4 for the corresponding release line) as addressed in Ivanti's advisory AV26-897. Until patched, minimize Sentry's internet exposure to required management/enrollment traffic and review appliance logs for unexpected administrator logins. Ivanti EPMM and Neurons for ITSM administrators should also review the same advisory, which covers additional flaws in those products.
Affected
| Ivanti Sentry | All builds before R10.8.2, before R10.7.3, and before R10.6.4 (fixed in R10.8.2, R10.7.3, and R10.6.4, per release line) |
Estimated exposure
nichelikely low-thousands of deployments, with only a few hundred internet-exposed instances in past public scans — Ivanti Sentry is a niche MDM gateway deployed mainly alongside Ivanti EPMM/MobileIron environments, and scans during earlier Sentry incidents (e.g., 2023) found only a few hundred internet-exposed instances, so total installations are…
Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.