CVE-2024-10811
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-10811 is a critical-severity Absolute Path Traversal (CWE-36) vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Forced Authentication (T1187); ranked in the top 10.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates the CVE by requiring timely application of Ivanti's January-2025 security updates to remediate the path traversal flaw.
Prevents absolute path traversal exploitation by validating and sanitizing user-supplied path inputs to restrict access to authorized directories.
Enforces logical access restrictions on sensitive files and resources, limiting the impact of any successful path traversal attempts.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Absolute path traversal vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to supply UNC paths, coercing the Ivanti EPM server machine account to authenticate via SMB to attacker-controlled shares, enabling NTLM credential capture and relay attacks.
NVD Description
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-10811 is an absolute path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22, CWE-36) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) versions prior to the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and the 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update. Published on January 14, 2025, the flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical), with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating network-accessible exploitation with low complexity, no privileges or user interaction required.
A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to leak sensitive information from affected Ivanti EPM instances. The high confidentiality impact aligns with the path traversal nature, while the elevated integrity and availability scores reflect potential broader disruption.
Ivanti's security advisory recommends applying the January-2025 Security Updates for EPM 2024 and EPM 2022 SU6 to mitigate the issue. Further technical details on related vulnerabilities, including credential coercion, are documented in Horizon3.ai's attack research blog.
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