How severe is CVE-2024-4885?

CVE-2024-4885 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 99.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2024-4885: WhatsUp Gold GetFileWithoutZip Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Progress WhatsUp Gold Path Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-03-03

Remediation due

2025-03-24

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://community.progress.com/s/article/WhatsUp-Gold-Security-Bulletin-June-2024 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4885

Description

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, an unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Progress WhatsUpGold. The WhatsUp.ExportUtilities.Export.GetFileWithoutZip allows execution of commands with iisapppool\nmconsole privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.8 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2024-4885 to the KEV catalog 251 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2025 is 26 days.
It is one of 9 Progress entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and the only one added in 2025.
Its current EPSS score (99.3%) is higher than that of 88% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Progress Software Corporation	Progress Software Corporation WhatsUp Gold	2023.1.0 to <2023.1.3

References

2 Links

Vendor advisories

https://community.progress.com/s/article/WhatsUp-Gold-Security-Bulletin-June-2024

Product pages

https://www.progress.com/network-monitoring

Record Details

Published

2024-06-25

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

ProgressSoftware

Credited to

Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

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Tool categories

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CVE-2024-4885