CVE-2024-13160
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13160 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 0.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13160 is an absolute path traversal vulnerability, tracked under CWE-36, that affects Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) prior to the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and the 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update. The flaw resides in the EPM server component and carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8, reflecting network-accessible, unauthenticated exploitation with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A remote attacker without credentials can send specially crafted requests to traverse absolute paths on the affected server, enabling the disclosure of sensitive files and configuration data that may contain credentials or other information useful for further attacks.
Ivanti’s security advisory directs customers to install the January 2025 updates for both EPM 2024 and EPM 2022 SU6. The vulnerability has also been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming active exploitation in the wild.
The associated EPSS score stands at 0.9381, matching its recorded peak and indicating substantial exploitation interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51386
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 10 March 2025
Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CVE-2024-13160 enables unauthenticated attackers to perform path traversal to remote UNC paths, coercing server machine account authentication for NTLM relay (T1187: Forced Authentication) and exploiting the remote service (T1210: Exploitation of Remote Services).
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Mitigating Controls
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Timely flaw remediation requires applying Ivanti's January 2025 security updates to directly fix the absolute path traversal vulnerability.
Information input validation checks and sanitizes inputs to block absolute path traversal sequences like '../' from accessing unauthorized files.
Information input restrictions reject invalid inputs including '..' sequences and partial URLs exploited in this path traversal attack.