CVE-2024-13160
CRITICALCVE-2024-13160 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-36 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-03-10) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-10. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-03-31.
- 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-2024-13160.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-13160 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 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.
Affected Products
endpoint managerivantiDetection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-13160 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.
How to detect CVE-2024-13160
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-13160 -u https://target- Template
- Ivanti EPM - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForWildcard
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can coerce NTLM authentication from the EPM server via UNC paths, allowing credential theft through man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Remediation
- Update Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) to a patched version that addresses CVE-2024-13160.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (ritikchaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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