CVE-2024-48248
NAKIVO Backup and Replication Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 9 April 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
NAKIVO Backup & Replication before 11.0.0.88174 allows absolute path traversal for reading files via getImageByPath to /c/router (this may lead to remote code execution across the enterprise because PhysicalDiscovery has cleartext credentials).
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.6 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 94.36% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 19 March 2025 · due 9 April 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-36
- Affected
- nakivo/backup \& replication director
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 94.4% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/Release-Notes/Content/Release-Notes.htm ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48248
References
- https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/Release-Notes/Content/Release-Notes.htmProduct
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-best-security-is-when-we-all-agree-to-keep-everything-secret-except-the-secrets-nakivo-backup-replication-cve-2024-48248/Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/nakivo-arbitrary-file-read-poc-CVE-2024-48248/?ref=labs.watchtowr.comExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-48248US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.