CVE-2024-8963

Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability

  • Critical 9.4
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 19 Sep 2024

Description

Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.

Key facts

Published
19 Sep 2024
Last changed
21 Oct 2025
Assigned by
ivanti
KEV added
19 Sep 2024
KEV fix due
10 Oct 2024
EPSS
98.607% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 99.923% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: yes; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 9.4CVSS 3.1, Criticalfrom the CNA (ivanti)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

What to do

  • As Ivanti CSA has reached End-of-Life status, users are urged to remove CSA 4.6.x from service or upgrade to the 5.0.x line of supported solutions, as future vulnerabilities on the 4.6.x version of CSA are unlikely to receive security updates.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

This reference retains the original CVE publication date. A recent record update does not mean a new attack occurred.

CAPEC-126 Path Traversal (CNA impact statement)

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
IvantiCSA (Cloud Services Appliance)
  • Default status: affected
  • 4.6 Patch 519 (unaffected)
  • 5.0 (unaffected)

Timeline

  1. 19 Sep 2024 CVE-2024-8963 added to CISA KEV
  2. 19 Sep 2024 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue
  3. 19 Sep 2024 Published

Weakness

Practice this bug class

HackZoneLabs has a hands-on lab on Path traversal (CWE-22).

References