CVE-2024-6670 — Whatsupgold
CRITICALCVE-2024-6670 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in progress whatsupgold. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-16) 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.
In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2024.0.0, a SQL Injection vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve the users encrypted password.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-09-16 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-10-07.
- 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-2024-6670.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-6670 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 395,308 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 2024.0.0, a SQL Injection vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve the users encrypted password.
Affected Products
whatsupgoldprogressResearch 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 whatsupgold deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-6670 yet — track the progress whatsupgold advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-6670
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-6670 -u https://target- Template
- WhatsUp Gold HasErrors SQL Injection - Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit SQL injection to retrieve encrypted user passwords, modify admin credentials, and achieve authentication bypass for full system access.
- Remediation
- Update WhatsUp Gold to version 2024.0.0 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK, princechaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-6670 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.