Ivanti CSA up to 4.6 Patch 518 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Ivanti CSA up to 4.6 Patch 518. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-8963. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Ivanti CSA up to 4.6 Patch 518. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Path Traversal in the Ivanti CSA before 4.6 Patch 519 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to access restricted functionality.

The advisory is shared at forums.ivanti.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-8963 since 09/18/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

It is declared as attacked. The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog lists this issue since 09/19/2024 with a due date of 10/10/2024:

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.

Upgrading to version 4.6 Patch 519 or 5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Zero-Day.cz (915). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Ivanti

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• CSA

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• 4.6 Patch 518

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• commercial

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