Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2024-4885

Progress WhatsUp Gold Path Traversal Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Progress
Product WhatsUp Gold
Weakness CWE-22

The vulnerability

Progress WhatsUp Gold contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

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.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 24 March 2025 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 19:58. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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