HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2024-2449

Loadmaster vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
12.9%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
A cross-site request forgery vulnerability has been identified in LoadMaster. It is possible for a malicious actor, who has prior knowledge of the IP or hostname of a specific LoadMaster, to direct an authenticated LoadMaster administrator to a third-party site. In such a scenario, the CSRF payload hosted on the malicious site would execute HTTP transactions on behalf of the LoadMaster administrator.
Affected vendor
Progress
Affected product
Loadmaster
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2024-03-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-2449

  • Confirm whether Progress Loadmaster is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-2449.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2024-2449

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2024-2449 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2024-2449?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2024-2449.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.