CVE-2024-8963 — Endpoint Manager Cloud Services Appliance
CRITICALCVE-2024-8963 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.4) Path Traversal vulnerability in ivanti endpoint manager cloud services appliance. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-19) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-09-19. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-10-10.
- 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-2024-8963.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-8963 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
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
Affected Products
endpoint manager cloud services applianceivantiResearch 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 ivanti endpoint manager cloud services appliance deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-8963 yet — track the ivanti endpoint manager cloud services appliance 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-2024-8963
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-8963 -u https://target- Template
- Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance - Path Traversal
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit path traversal to access restricted administrative functionality, potentially gaining unauthorized control of the Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance and accessing sensitive user management features.
- Remediation
- Update Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance to version 4.6 Patch 519 or later to address the path traversal vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (johnk3r), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-8963 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.