Zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)

SQL injection
CVE-2024-9379

Vulnerability details

Advisory: SB2024100852 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)

Vulnerable component: Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA)

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9379

CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CWE-ID: CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Description:

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote privileged user can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Ivanti CSA 4.6 users, according to vendor's advisory. Vulnerability exploitation was chained with previously address vulnerability #VU97617 (CVE-2024-8963).

External links:

https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-CSA-Cloud-Services-Appliance-CVE-2024-9379-CVE-2024-9380-CVE-2024-9381

About zero-day vulnerabilities

Zero-day vulnerability is an undisclosed vulnerability in software that hackers can exploit to compromise computer programs, gain unauthorized access to sensitive data, penetrate networks, etc. We consider vulnerability a zero-day when there is no solution provided from software vendor and the vulnerability is being actively exploited by malicious actors.

Zero-day candidate is a potential zero-day vulnerability in software which might have been used in targeted attacks, however there is no evidence to support this suggestion.