CVE-2024-1212 — Loadmaster
CRITICALCVE-2024-1212 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10) OS Command Injection vulnerability in progress loadmaster. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-18) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-18. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-12-09.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-1212.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-1212 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.
Affected Products
loadmasterprogressResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadM…
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadM…
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadM…
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadM…
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every progress loadmaster deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the progress loadmaster security patch or hotfix for CVE-2024-1212 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-1212
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-1212 -u https://target- Template
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster - Command Injection
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary system commands through the LoadMaster management interface, leading to complete system compromise.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to LoadMaster versions 7.2.59.2, 7.2.54.8, or 7.2.48.10 depending on your current version.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-1212 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.