CVE-2024-8963 — Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability

CVE-2024-8963 (Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2024-09-19. Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow a remote… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2024-8963 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2024-09-19. Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality. If CVE-2024-8963 is used in conjunction with CVE-2024-8190, an attacker could bypass admin authentication and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
Ivanti
Affected product
Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)
Added to CISA KEV
2024-09-19
US federal remediation due date
2024-10-10
Ransomware association
Unknown
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22

Remediation: the 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.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

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Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.