CVE-2024-13168
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13168 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 Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); 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-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-16 (Memory Protection).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13168 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CWE-787) in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM). It affects Ivanti EPM versions prior to the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update. The flaw has 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 potential for significant availability impact.
A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition by causing an out-of-bounds write, potentially crashing the affected EPM instance and disrupting endpoint management services.
Ivanti's security advisory recommends applying the January-2025 Security Updates for EPM 2024 and EPM 2022 SU6 to mitigate the vulnerability. Administrators should review the advisory at https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-EPM-January-2025-for-EPM-2024-and-EPM-2022-SU6 for patch deployment details and verification steps.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51394
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?
Out-of-bounds write enables remote unauthenticated DoS via application exploitation (T1499.004).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Mandates timely installation of security updates to remediate the specific out-of-bounds write vulnerability as recommended by Ivanti's January-2025 advisory.
Implements memory protections such as stack canaries or ASLR to minimize the impact of out-of-bounds write memory corruption exploits.
Requires validation of remote inputs to prevent malicious data from triggering the out-of-bounds write in Ivanti EPM.