Machine credential coercion via unchecked wildcard path
Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 21, 2025
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti Endpoint Manager 2024 and 2022 SU6 before their January 2025 updates allows remote attackers to read sensitive data. The unauthenticated GetHashForWildcardRecursive API passes a user-controlled wildcard through Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine without validation, allowing recursive access to an attacker-selected directory or remote UNC path. A crafted request can coerce the Windows core server's machine credential for relay attacks, with downstream compromise dependent on the relay target and domain permissions.
Summary
What happened
Absolute path traversal in Ivanti Endpoint Manager 2024 and 2022 SU6 before their January 2025 updates allows remote attackers to read sensitive data. The unauthenticated GetHashForWildcardRecursive API passes a user-controlled wildcard through Path.GetDirectoryName and Path.Combine without validation, allowing recursive access to an attacker-selected directory or remote UNC path. A crafted request can coerce the Windows core server's machine credential for relay attacks, with downstream compromise dependent on the relay target and domain permissions.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-13159
- Published
- Jan 14, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Ivanti
- Product
- Ivanti Endpoint Manager
- Classifications
- CWE-36, T1187
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Attacks
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| Reporting day | Unique IPs |
|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | 4 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 2 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | Unavailable |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Unavailable |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Unavailable |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Unavailable |
Public exploit references
- Ivanti EPM CVE-2024-13159 proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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Reported exploitation
- Ivanti Endpoint Manager Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerabilityknown exploited catalog
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