CVE-2024-8963
Path Traversal in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Cloud Services Appliance 4.6
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:LSummary
CVE-2024-8963 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Cloud Services Appliance. Its CVSS base score is 9.4 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) 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-2024-8963 is a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) affecting Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) versions prior to 4.6 Patch 519. The flaw permits unauthorized access to restricted functionality through improper handling of file paths in the affected component.
A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit the issue over the network without any user interaction or credentials. Successful exploitation grants the ability to reach otherwise protected resources, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality and integrity along with limited availability effects as reflected in the CVSS 9.4 score.
The official Ivanti security advisory recommends immediate application of the 4.6 Patch 519 update to remediate the vulnerability. CISA has added CVE-2024-8963 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming active exploitation in the wild.
The associated EPSS score remains persistently elevated, with a current value of 0.9423 and a recorded peak of 0.9680, indicating sustained exploitation interest following disclosure.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-49510
Vulnerability Data
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 19 September 2024
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V5.3.2
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces the intended directory access authorizations that path traversal would otherwise bypass.
Input validation directly neutralizes special path elements before pathname construction occurs.
Least privilege reduces the impact of any unauthorized file access obtained via traversal.
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.
Patching/maintenance can remediate known path-traversal flaws in deployed software (partial prevention of exploitability) but does nothing to stop the coding defect from being introduced in the first place.
PR.AA-05 defines and reviews access policies but does not address code-level pathname neutralization, so neither direction prevents CWE-22.
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.
Security testing in development catches path traversal via static/dynamic analysis.
Secure SDLC mandates input validation and path sanitization that directly prevent path traversal.
Application security requirements include rules for safe file handling and canonicalization.
Secure architecture principles require least-privilege file access and directory isolation.
Secure coding standards explicitly forbid unsafe path construction and mandate safe APIs.
Information access restriction limits which files an application may read or write.