Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Ivanti Endpoint Manager has a critical path traversal flaw that can let a remote, unauthenticated attacker access sensitive information. Because CISA lists CVE-2024-13160 in KEV, organizations should treat exposed or unpatched EPM deployments as urgent business risk.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation immediately for any reachable Ivanti EPM instance. This is a critical, unauthenticated vulnerability with CISA-known exploitation and potential sensitive information exposure from a high-privilege management platform.
Technical view
CVE-2024-13160 is CWE-36 absolute path traversal in Ivanti EPM before the 2024 January-2025 Security Update and 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update. The CVSS 3.1 score is 9.8: network-reachable, low complexity, no privileges, and no user interaction.
Likely exposure
Likely exposure is limited to Ivanti Endpoint Manager 2024 and 2022 SU6 installations that have not received the January 2025 security updates. Internet-facing management services and high-trust internal EPM servers deserve priority review.
Exploitation context
CISA KEV indicates known exploitation. The bundle also cites Horizon3 public attack research tagged as exploit. The provided evidence does not establish exploitation scale, victim sectors, or specific indicators of compromise.
Researcher notes
The source bundle supports path traversal, unauthenticated remote access, KEV status, and January 2025 update boundaries. It does not provide safe validation probes, exploit mechanics, IoCs, or complete deployment-specific mitigation details.
Mitigation direction
- Apply Ivanti’s January 2025 EPM security update for the deployed supported version.
- Review Ivanti’s advisory for version-specific prerequisites and any temporary mitigations.
- Restrict network access to EPM management interfaces wherever operationally feasible.
- Increase monitoring around EPM hosts until patch status and exposure are confirmed.
Validation and detection
- Inventory all Ivanti Endpoint Manager 2024 and 2022 SU6 servers.
- Confirm installed update level against Ivanti’s January 2025 security advisory.
- Check whether EPM services are reachable from untrusted networks.
- Review EPM and perimeter logs for unusual file access or authentication-related activity.
Public sources used
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- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- Yes
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H3.95.9Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
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9.8CriticalVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-EPM-January-2025-for-EPM-2024-and-EPM-2022-SU6CVE reference
- https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/attack-blogs/ivanti-endpoint-manager-multiple-credential-coercion-vulnerabilities/CVE reference · exploit
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-13160CVE reference · government-resource
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Absolute Path Traversal
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