critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2024-50623Cleo file transfer — unrestricted upload and download to RCE

Cleo Harmony, VLTrader and LexiCom before 5.8.0.21 place no restriction on what may be uploaded or downloaded, which an attacker turns into code running with elevated privileges.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Upgrade to 5.8.0.21 or later now — and then past 5.8.0.24, since the first fix was incomplete; ransomware crews use both.

Read the risk

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
2024-10-28
Added to KEV
2024-12-13
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
initial access
MITRE ATT&CK
T1190, T1505.003
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 file transfer service; no credentials needed.

Fixed inCleo Harmony 5.8.0.21, Cleo VLTrader 5.8.0.21, Cleo LexiCom 5.8.0.21

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.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

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

crds:cve-2024-50623 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24