CVE-2023-38551 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A CRLF Injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows an authenticated high-privileged user to inject malicious code on a victim’s browser, thereby leading to cross-site scripting attack.

Published: 2024-05-31

Score: 8.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Ivanti

Connect Secure

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`22.7R2`	affected	< 22.7R2
`22.5R2.2`	affected	< 22.5R2.2
`9.1R18.6`	affected	< 9.1R18.6

No data.

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Ivanti	Connect Secure	—	—

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-42350	A CRLF Injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows an authenticated high-privileged user to inject malicious code on a victim’s browser, thereby leading to cross-site scripting attack.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00583.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-May-2024

History

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-93
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Ivanti Connect Secure

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2024-05-31T17:38:31.360Z

Updated: 2025-03-27T20:43:12.726Z

Reserved: 2023-07-20T01:00:12.444Z

Link: CVE-2023-38551

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T17:46:56.089Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-31T18:15:09.780

Modified: 2025-03-27T21:15:42.800

Link: CVE-2023-38551

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T16:01:35Z

Weaknesses

CWE-93

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