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CVE-2026-83527

niche

Authentication Bypass in Ivanti Sentry Grants Remote Admin Access

CVSS 3.1
8.1 high
EPSS
1%p72
Published
()
Modified
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 SentryAll 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.

Description

An Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Sentry before R10.8.2, R10.7.3 and R10.6.4 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative level access.

Weakness
CWE-288
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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.

Ivanti security advisory (AV26-897)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed Ivanti's September 2026 security updates for Endpoint Manager Mobile, Neurons for ITSM, and Sentry, urging administrators to patch.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security forwarded Ivanti's September 2026 security updates covering Endpoint Manager Mobile, Neurons for ITSM (cloud/SaaS and on-prem), and Sentry. Affected releases include Endpoint Manager Mobile prior to 12.10.0.0, Sentry prior to R10.8.2, and Neurons for ITSM on-prem prior to 2026.2. The advisory references CVE-2026-18851 for Endpoint Manager Mobile and CVE-2026-83527 for Sentry, plus multiple CVEs in Neurons for ITSM. No exploitation is described in the advisory text.