Ivanti has rolled out security updates to address several security flaws impacting Avalanche, Application Control Engine, and Endpoint Manager (EPM), including four critical bugs that could lead to information disclosure.
All the four critical security flaws, rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scale, are rooted in EPM, and concern instances of absolute path traversal that allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to leak sensitive information. The flaws are listed below -
- CVE-2024-10811
- CVE-2024-13161
- CVE-2024-13160, and
- CVE-2024-13159
The shortcomings affect EPM versions 2024 November security update and prior, and 2022 SU6 November security update and prior. They have been addressed in EPM 2024 January-2025 Security Update and EPM 2022 SU6 January-2025 Security Update.
Horizon3.ai security researcher Zach Hanley has been credited with discovering and reporting all four vulnerabilities in question.
Also patched by Ivanti are multiple high-severity bugs in Avalanche versions prior to 6.4.7 and Application Control Engine before version 10.14.4.0 that could permit an attacker to bypass authentication, leak sensitive information, and get around the application blocking functionality.
The company said it has no evidence that any of the flaws are being exploited in the wild, and that it has intensified its internal scanning and testing procedures to promptly flag and address security issues.
The development comes as SAP released fixes to resolve two critical vulnerabilities in its NetWeaver ABAP Server and ABAP Platform (CVE-2025-0070 and CVE-2025-0066, CVSS scores: 9.9) that allows an authenticated attacker to exploit improper authentication checks in order to escalate privileges and access restricted information due to weak access controls.
"SAP strongly recommends that the customer visits the Support Portal and applies patches on priority to protect their SAP landscape," the company said in its January 2025 bulletin.
Horizon3.ai Releases Technical Details
A little over a month after patches were shipped for the aforementioned flaws, San Francisco-headquartered Horizon3.ai has released additional technical specifics, describing them as "credential coercion" bugs that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to compromise the servers.
The weaknesses discovered could permit an attacker to "coerce the Ivanti EPM machine account credential to be used in relay attacks, potentially allowing for server compromise," Hanley said, adding they reside in a DLL named "WSVulnerabilityCore.dll" that exposes various APIs related to vulnerability management for endpoints management by the EPM server.
- CVE-2024-13159 - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForWildcardRecursive
- CVE-2024-13160 - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForWildcard
- CVE-2024-13161 - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForSingleFile
- CVE-2024-10811 - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForFile
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has also been publicly made available by the company, making it imperative that users move quickly to apply the patches, if not already.
(The story was updated after publication on February 20, 2025, to include information about the release of a PoC.)
