Volexity uncovers Ivanti VPN attack using three zero-days
Volexity traced a breach of a fully patched Ivanti Connect Secure 22.8R2.4 appliance to threat actor UTA0576, which chained an authentication bypass, RCE and privilege escalation for unauthenticated root access. Ivanti patched two of the three flaws on October 13; CISA added CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS 8.6) to its KEV catalog.
- Intrusion began by October 3 and was detected on October 5
- Chain combined auth bypass, RCE and privilege escalation to root
- CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS 8.6) added to CISA's KEV catalog
- Attackers stole LAPS passwords, BitLocker keys and LDAP data
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