CVE-2024-4885 — Whatsup Gold
CRITICALCVE-2024-4885 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Path Traversal vulnerability in progress whatsup gold. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-03-03) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Progress WhatsUpGold. The WhatsUp.ExportUtilities.Export.GetFileWithoutZip …
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-03. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-03-24.
- 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-2024-4885.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-4885 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
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Progress WhatsUpGold. The
WhatsUp.ExportUtilities.Export.GetFileWithoutZip
allows execution of commands with iisapppool\nmconsole privileges.
Affected Products
whatsup goldprogressResearch 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 progress whatsup gold deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-4885 yet — track the progress whatsup gold 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-2024-4885
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-4885 -u https://target- Template
- Progress Software WhatsUp Gold GetFileWithoutZip Directory Traversal - Remote Code Execution
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit directory traversal to read sensitive files and achieve remote code execution.
- Remediation
- Update Progress WhatsUp Gold to a version that patches CVE-2024-4885.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (SinSinology, iamnoooob, rootxharsh), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-4885 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.