Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-8051

HighRCE

Published: 12 May 2026

Published
12 May 2026
Modified
15 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0146 81.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-8051 is a high-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 18.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2026-8051 is an OS command injection vulnerability, tracked under CWE-78, that affects Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager versions prior to 22.9r4. The flaw received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability when successfully exploited.

A remote attacker who already possesses authenticated administrative credentials can supply crafted input that results in arbitrary operating-system command execution on the affected traffic manager instance.

The referenced Ivanti May 2026 security advisory addresses remediation for CVE-2026-8051. The EPSS score remains low at 0.0146 with no material increase from its initial value.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

OS command injection in Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager before version 22.9r4 allows a remote authenticated attacker with admin privileges to achieve remote code execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
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Why these techniques?

OS command injection (CWE-78) in a remotely accessible management interface directly enables exploitation of a public-facing app (T1190) to achieve RCE via Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

ivanti
virtual traffic manager
22.9 · ≤ 22.8

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References