CVE-2024-1212
RCE in Progress Loadmaster 7.2.48.1 – 7.2.48.10
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-1212 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Progress Loadmaster. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique NTDS (T1003.003); ranked in the top 0.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2024-1212 is a critical OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting the LoadMaster management interface. The flaw permits unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands on affected Kemp Technologies LoadMaster appliances, reflected in its maximum CVSS 3.1 score of 10.0.
An attacker with network reachability to the management interface can exploit the issue without credentials or user interaction, resulting in full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the underlying system. The attack surface is exposed by default on the administrative web interface.
Vendor advisories direct customers to apply the fixes shipped in LoadMaster OS releases 7.2.59.2, 7.2.54.8, and 7.2.48.10, which are available from the Kemp support portal. The associated EPSS score remains elevated near 0.94 with no material post-disclosure climb from a low baseline.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-16979
Vulnerability Data
Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 18 November 2024
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.