CVE-2024-7593 — Virtual Traffic Manager
CRITICALCVE-2024-7593 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Improper Authentication vulnerability in ivanti virtual traffic manager. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-24) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Incorrect implementation of an authentication algorithm in Ivanti vTM other than versions 22.2R1 or 22.7R2 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication of the admin panel.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-09-24. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-10-15.
- 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-2024-7593.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-7593 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 383,485 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Incorrect implementation of an authentication algorithm in Ivanti vTM other than versions 22.2R1 or 22.7R2 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication of the admin panel.
Affected Products
virtual traffic managerivantiResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
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Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every ivanti virtual traffic manager deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-7593 yet — track the ivanti virtual traffic manager advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-7593
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-7593 -u https://target- Template
- Ivanti vTM - Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can bypass authentication to access the admin panel, gaining full administrative control of the Ivanti vTM system and potentially modifying traffic management configurations.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (gy741), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-7593 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.