Unauthenticated Remote Path Traversal in Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519
CVE-2024-8963 Published on September 19, 2024
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality. If CVE-2024-8963 is used in conjunction with CVE-2024-8190, an attacker could bypass admin authentication and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by October 10, 2024: As Ivanti CSA has reached End-of-Life status, users are urged to remove CSA 4.6.x from service or upgrade to the 5.0.x line of supported solutions, as future vulnerabilities on the 4.6.x version of CSA are unlikely to receive security updates.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-8963 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Directory traversal Vulnerability?
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
CVE-2024-8963 has been classified to as a Directory traversal vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-8963
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Affected Versions
Ivanti CSA (Cloud Services Appliance):- Version 4.6 Patch 519 is unaffected.
- Version 5.0 is unaffected.
- Before 4.6patch519 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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