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

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name

Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability

Vendor

Ivanti

Product

Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)

Added to the catalog

2024-09-19

Due date for US federal agencies

2024-10-10

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Catalog version

2026.10.30

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.

Required action (CISA)

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.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

• https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-CSA-4-6-Cloud-Services-Appliance-CVE-2024-8963
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8963

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NVD analysis

Status

Analyzed

Published

2024-09-19T18:15:10.600

Last modified

2026-06-17T08:23:38.600

Weaknesses

CWE-22

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

References

• https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-CSA-4-6-Cloud-Services-Appliance-CVE-2024-8963 (Vendor Advisory)
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-8963 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner

ivanti

State

PUBLISHED

Published

2024-09-19T17:14:49.386Z

Updated

2025-10-21T22:55:44.119Z

Problem types

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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

References

• https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-CSA-4-6-Cloud-Services-Appliance-CVE-2024-8963

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

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