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Path Traversal in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance

IdentifiersCVE-2024-8963CWE-22· Improper Limitation of a Pathname…

CVE-2024-8963 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) 4.6 before Patch 519. The issue is exploitable remotely and without authentication, allowing an attacker to traverse paths and access files and restricted appliance functionality that should not be exposed to unauthenticated users. Ivanti’s description states that the flaw allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality, and multiple supporting reports characterize the issue as enabling administrator authentication bypass or access to administrative rights. The vulnerability has also been reported as chainable with CVE-2024-8190, where CVE-2024-8963 provides the unauthorized access/authentication bypass needed to reach functionality that can then be leveraged for arbitrary command execution.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation can expose sensitive files and restricted administrative functionality on the CSA appliance to an unauthenticated remote attacker. In practice, reporting indicates this can amount to administrator authentication bypass and acquisition of administrative rights on vulnerable systems. When chained with CVE-2024-8190, the impact escalates to arbitrary command execution / remote code execution on the appliance. The published CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L) indicates high confidentiality and integrity impact with low availability impact. Multiple sources in the provided content state the vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching or upgrade cannot be completed, reduce exposure of the CSA appliance as much as operationally possible, especially internet exposure, and increase monitoring for exploitation. The provided content specifically recommends reviewing for newly added or modified administrative users, checking broker logs for inconsistencies or suspicious activity, and closely monitoring EDR and other telemetry for signs of compromise. Because exploitation has been observed in the wild and patching alone does not address prior intrusion, organizations should perform threat hunting for webshells, suspicious HTTP requests, anomalous log entries, and other indicators of compromise on exposed systems.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Ivanti CSA to a fixed release. For affected CSA 4.6 deployments, apply Patch 519 immediately. Because CSA 4.6 is end-of-life, the preferred remediation in the provided advisories is to upgrade to CSA 5.0 or later fixed versions as recommended by Ivanti. Organizations should also investigate for prior compromise, because the provided advisories explicitly note that patching does not remediate historic compromise. If compromise is suspected, isolate the appliance, preserve forensic evidence, rebuild from trusted media if necessary, and reset credentials and secrets that may have been exposed or transited the device.
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IvantiEndpoint Manager Cloud Services Applianceapplication

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