CVE-2024-13165
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13165 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 18.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-2 (Flaw Remediation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13165 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CWE-787) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) in versions prior to the January-2025 Security Update for EPM 2024 and the 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update. This flaw enables a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service condition. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), indicating high severity due to its network accessibility, low attack complexity, and potential for significant availability disruption without requiring privileges or user interaction.
A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network by sending specially crafted requests that cause an out-of-bounds write in the affected EPM components. Successful exploitation results in a denial of service, potentially crashing the service and disrupting endpoint management operations for affected environments.
Ivanti's security advisory recommends applying the January-2025 Security Update for EPM 2024 or the 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update to mitigate the vulnerability. Additional details are available in the official advisory at https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-EPM-January-2025-for-EPM-2024-and-EPM-2022-SU6.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51391
Vulnerability details
An out-of-bounds write in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote unauthenticated exploitation of public-facing EPM service via crafted requests directly enables T1190 and results in application crash/DoS matching T1499.004.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of software flaws such as the out-of-bounds write in Ivanti EPM via vendor security updates.
Requires validation of incoming information to block specially crafted requests that trigger the out-of-bounds write vulnerability.
Implements memory protections to mitigate effects of out-of-bounds writes that could corrupt memory and cause denial-of-service crashes.