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CVE-2024-48248

HIGH
8.6
CVSS Score
Published: March 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: September 24, 2026 at 01:27 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBackup & Replication Director

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Severity
HIGH8.6
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 94%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score94.4%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 94.4% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 100% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

NAKIVO Backup and Replication contains an absolute path traversal vulnerability that enables an attacker to read arbitrary files.

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.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Mar 19, 2025
Remediation Due
Apr 9, 2025
565 days overdue
Notes
https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/Release-Notes/Content/Release-Notes.htm
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-48248

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Backup & Replication Director· Nakivo
95%
v < 11.0.0.88174
Affected range stops below 11.0.0.88174, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (4)

Product
Source: [email protected]
https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/Release-Notes/Content/Release-Notes.htm
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
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/
ExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/nakivo-arbitrary-file-read-poc-CVE-2024-48248/?ref=labs.watchtowr.com
US Government Resource
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-48248

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveAutomatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.6HIGHmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-36NVD-CWE-Other

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