CVE-2024-13161 — Endpoint Manager
CRITICALCVE-2024-13161 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-36 vulnerability in ivanti endpoint manager. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 89.8% (100th percentile). A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details 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
- CISA’s SSVC triage classifies this CVE as under active exploitation.
- 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’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-13161.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-13161 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 394,415 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% 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
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every ivanti endpoint manager deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the ivanti endpoint manager security patch or hotfix for CVE-2024-13161 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
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. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-13161
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-13161 -u https://target- Template
- Ivanti EPM - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForSingleFile
- 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-2024-13161.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (ritikchaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-13161 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.