CVE-2024-8963: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
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.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Ivanti CSA contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow unauthorized access.
- Who is affected
- Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Immediate action is required due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Ivanti CSA to mitigate the vulnerabilities.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8963
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2024-8963Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-8963 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Ivanti Cloud Services
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- unknownexploitedExploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) (October 22, 2024)cert-fr-alerte · 2024-10-22
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-9380: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) OS Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-10-09
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-9379: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) SQL Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-10-09
- criticalexploitedCVE-2024-8190: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance OS Command Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-09-13
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-44529: Ivanti Endpoint Manager Cloud Service Appliance (EPM CSA) Code Injection Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-03-25
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