Critical Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry
12 June 2026
Attackers can exploit OS command injection (CVE-2026-10520) and authentication bypass (CVE-2026-10523) vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry to execute commands as root, create unauthorised administrative accounts, and gain full system administrative control without authentication. Patch immediately.
Background
Ivanti has released security updates addressing multiple critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10520 and CVE-2026-10523) affecting Ivanti Sentry, a mobile security gateway used for securing enterprise mobile device communications. This vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v3.1) score of 10 and 9.9 out of 10, respectively.
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to the following:
CVE-2026-10520: Due to an OS command injection vulnerability in Ivanti Sentry, an unauthenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests to execute arbitrary system commands with root-level privileges on the affected system.
CVE-2026-10523: Due to improper authentication controls in Ivanti Sentry, an unauthenticated attacker could bypass authentication, create arbitrary administrative accounts, and gain full administrative access to the affected system.
Affected Products
These vulnerabilities affect the following products:
Ivanti Sentry versions prior to 10.5.2
Ivanti Sentry versions prior to 10.6.2
Ivanti Sentry versions prior to 10.7.1
Recommendations
Users and administrators of affected products are advised to update the affected products to the latest version immediately.
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10520
