CVE-2024-13161
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.
do firstApply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Can a WAF block it? Partly. Cloudflare publishes WAF a rule written for this CVE. Such rules block the known exploit requests and buy time, but attackers can change the request to get past them, so they do not replace the patch.
Cloudflare · 1 rule (Block) · since 3 Mar 2025
- Ivanti - Remote Code Execution - CVE:CVE-2024-13159, CVE:CVE-2024-13160, CVE:CVE-2024-13161 · Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
Also consider: patch · enable the vendor rule in block mode
Based on WAF vendor rules published for this CVE. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2024-13161 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2024-13161 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2024-13161?
CVE-2024-13161 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.8. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2024-13161?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2024-13161. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2024-13161 affect?
CVE-2024-13161 affects ivanti:endpoint_manager. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
public exploits
Detection templates only, no public exploit found: 1 Nuclei template
- Ivanti EPM - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForSingleFile · detection template · critical
Listed so you can judge urgency, not as a recommendation to run anything. GitHub “proofs of concept” are unvetted: some are fake or carry malware. Exploit-DB marks the entries its staff verified.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- yes
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 10 Mar 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 14 Jan 2025Published
- 10 Mar 2025Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 54 days later
- 10 Mar 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 1 day later
- 31 Mar 2025CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 20 days later
- 21 Oct 2025CVE record last updated · 205 days (about 7 months) later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 377 days (about 1 year) later
- Exploithorizon3.ai /attack-research/attack-blogs/ivanti-endpoint-manager-multiple-credential-coerci
- Linkforums.ivanti.com /s/article/Security-Advisory-EPM-January-2025-for-EPM-2024-and-EPM-2022-SU6
- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-13161
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Nuclei templates: detection templates
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.