Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability
Ivanti — CSA (Cloud Services Appliance)
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
9.4
98.6%
Vector breakdown
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- Published
- Sep 19, 2024
- Modified
- Oct 21, 2025
- Added to KEV
- Sep 19, 2024
- Federal patch due
- Oct 10, 2024
CISA required action
As Ivanti CSA has reached End-of-Life status, users are urged to remove CSA 4.6.x from service or upgrade to the 5.0.x line of supported solutions, as future vulnerabilities on the 4.6.x version of CSA are unlikely to receive security updates.
Weakness classification
Proof-of-concept & exploitation references
Weaponization
Public repositories whose name or description references CVE-2024-8963, found via a live GitHub search at request time. These are community-sourced signals, not a verified working exploit — cross-check each one before relying on it, and treat higher star counts and recent activity as (weak) corroboration, not proof.
No public GitHub repositories referencing CVE-2024-8963 were found at last check. Absence here is not proof no exploit exists — see the references below for vendor advisories and write-ups.
References
How this class of flaw gets exploited
Frequently asked questions
What is CVE-2024-8963?
Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.
How severe is CVE-2024-8963?
CVE-2024-8963 has a CVSS base score of 9.4 out of 10 (CVSS 3.1).
Is CVE-2024-8963 actively exploited in the wild?
Yes. CVE-2024-8963 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added Sep 19, 2024, meaning CISA has confirmed evidence of active exploitation.
What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-8963?
98.6% - meaning FIRST.org's EPSS model estimates a 98.6% probability this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within 30 days (100% percentile among all scored CVEs).
Is there exploit tooling available for CVE-2024-8963?
Yes - a public Nuclei template referencing CVE-2024-8963 exist in public repositories we checked.
What type of vulnerability is CVE-2024-8963?
CVE-2024-8963 is classified under CWE-22 (CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')).
Cross-checked against
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