What is CVE-2024-51453?

CVE-2024-51453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-05-28.

How severe is CVE-2024-51453?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-51453 known to be exploited?

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

Path Traversal in Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy

CVE-2024-51453

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.2.0.0 through 6.2.0.1 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.002 (43.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy — versions 6.2.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7234887 (vendor-advisory, patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-51453?: CVE-2024-51453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2024-51453?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-51453 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.