Exploited End of life

CVE-2024-8963

Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) · Monitoring, ITSM and asset management

Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Path Traversal Vulnerability

At a glance

Exploited. Added to CISA’s catalog of exploited vulnerabilities on September 19, 2024.

End-of-life product: no patch is coming. Remove it or isolate it from the network.

Affected product: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) (category Monitoring, ITSM and asset management, indicative classification). Name in CISA’s catalog: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA).

What should I do?

This product has reached end of life: no patch is coming. Remove it or isolate it from the network.

Deadline set by CISA for US federal agencies: 21 days (due October 10, 2024). It only binds those agencies, but it is a useful measure of urgency.

Ivanti security advisories page (general page, not the advisory for this vulnerability)
The vendor’s specific advisory is listed in the NVD references: CVE-2024-8963 on the NVD website.

Original text of the 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.

Timeline

September 19, 2024 Vulnerability published Publication date (NVD)
September 19, 2024 Exploitation confirmed Added to CISA’s KEV catalog
October 10, 2024 CISA deadline Remediation deadline set for US federal agencies

The facts, with their sources

Exploitation confirmed: Yes, on September 19, 2024 Date added to the catalog of exploited vulnerabilities. Exploitation itself may have started earlier. Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Ransomware: No known use to date That does not guarantee it is not being used: the information is not public. Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Hunt for compromise: Not requested by CISA Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
CISA required action: This product has reached end of life: no patch is coming. Remove it or isolate it from the network. Rewritten by this site from CISA’s original text. Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
CISA deadline: October 10, 2024, 21 days Set for US federal agencies: a measure of urgency, not an obligation elsewhere. Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Vulnerability published: September 19, 2024 Source: National Vulnerability Database (NVD), collected September 29, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Product according to CISA: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) Filed by this site under “Monitoring, ITSM and asset management” (indicative classification). Source: KEV catalog, collected September 29, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Technical detail of the score: attack vector, complexity, impact. Source: National Vulnerability Database (NVD), collected September 29, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Severity and activity

9.1 / 10 CVSS severity: critical

Score from the NVD. Collected Sep 29, 2026.

— Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

FIRST’s EPSS model. Since exploitation is already confirmed, this figure is mostly useful to compare activity. Collected Sep 29, 2026.

Description

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

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.

Summary from CISA (KEV catalog).

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2024-ALE-013: Exploitations de vulnérabilités dans Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) (updated March 31, 2025)

Information reused under the Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab); the date of last update is shown for each advisory. This site is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by ANSSI.

Sources for this page

CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, required action, deadline, ransomware.
NVD (NIST): CVSS severity, publication date, description, vendor references.
EPSS (FIRST): probability of exploitation.
CERT-FR: advisories and alerts (in French).
Brand and category: indicative classification by this site (method).