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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
HIGH severity

CVE-2026-6973 — Endpoint Manager Mobile

HIGH

CVE-2026-6973 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.2) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ivanti endpoint manager mobile. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-05-07) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An Improper Input Validation in Ivanti EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1 allows a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code execution.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-05-07. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-05-10.
  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2026-6973.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
2.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs85th percentile — riskier than 85% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%14.7%29.4%44.0%4.9%34.5%34.5%2.5%2.5%Jun 26Sep 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2026-6973 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

An Improper Input Validation in Ivanti EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1 allows a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code execution.

Affected Products

1 product · 3 configurations
Application
endpoint manager mobileivanti
< 12.6.1.1
2 versions
12.7.0.012.8.0.0

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every ivanti endpoint manager mobile deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the ivanti endpoint manager mobile security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-6973 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An Improper Input Validation in Ivanti EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1 allows a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code execution.
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CVE-2026-6973: Endpoint Manager Mobile (High 7.2, KEV)