What is CVE-2024-5016?

CVE-2024-5016 is a high-severity vulnerability in Progress Whatsup Gold, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2024-06-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-5016?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5016 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deserialization in Progress Whatsup Gold

CVE-2024-5016

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, Distributed Edition installations can be exploited by using a deserialization tool to achieve a Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM. The vulnerability exists in the main message processing routines NmDistributed.DistributedServiceBehavior.OnMessage for server and NmDistributed.DistributedClient.OnMessage for clients.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.224 (97.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Progress Whatsup_gold — versions 23.1.0
Progress Software Corporation Whatsup Gold — versions 2023.1.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

security@progress.com (Product, product)
security@progress.com (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5016?: CVE-2024-5016 is a high-severity vulnerability in Progress Whatsup Gold, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2024-06-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-5016?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5016 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.