critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2024-4885WhatsUp Gold — Path Traversal to Unauthenticated Code Execution

The network monitoring product lets a request escape its directory and reach code execution, on a server that by design can already talk to everything it watches.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade WhatsUp Gold to 2023.1.3 or later, and review what the monitoring account could reach.

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THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
99%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2024-06-25
Added to KEV
2025-03-03
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190, T1083
Severity
critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsNetwork access to the monitoring server

Fixed inWhatsUp Gold 2023.1.3

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2024-4885 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07