CVE-2024-41713 — Micollab
CRITICALCVE-2024-41713 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) Path Traversal vulnerability in mitel micollab. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-07) and has been used in ransomware campaigns — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
A vulnerability in the NuPoint Unified Messaging (NPM) component of Mitel MiCollab through 9.8 SP1 FP2 (9.8.1.201) could allow an unauthenticated attacker to conduct a path traversal…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-07 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-01-28.
- 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-2024-41713.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-41713 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 395,492 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
A vulnerability in the NuPoint Unified Messaging (NPM) component of Mitel MiCollab through 9.8 SP1 FP2 (9.8.1.201) could allow an unauthenticated attacker to conduct a path traversal attack, due to insufficient input validation. A successful exploit could allow unauthorized access, enabling the attacker to view, corrupt, or delete users' data and system configurations.
Affected Products
micollabmitelResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every mitel micollab deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-41713 yet — track the mitel micollab advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds 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. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-41713
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-41713 -u https://target- Template
- Mitel MiCollab - Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit path traversal to access sensitive user data, system configurations, and corrupt or delete information.
- Remediation
- Update Mitel MiCollab to a version later than 9.8 SP1 FP2 that patches CVE-2024-41713.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK, watchTowr), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-41713 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.