What is CVE-2021-3540?

CVE-2021-3540 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Mobileiron, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-07-22.

How severe is CVE-2021-3540?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ivanti Mobileiron

CVE-2021-3540

By abusing the 'install rpm info detail' command, an attacker can escape the restricted clish shell on affected versions of Ivanti MobileIron Core. This issue was fixed in version 11.1.0.0.

Published 2021-07-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (88.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Ivanti Mobileiron
Ivanti Mobileiron Core — versions 10.7.0.1-9, 11.0.0.1-3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/06/02/untitled-cve-2021-3198-and-cve-2021-3540-mo… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-3540?: CVE-2021-3540 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Mobileiron, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-07-22.
How severe is CVE-2021-3540?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.