Threats / Progress / CVE-2024-6670
CVE-2024-6670
· EUVD no mirror located
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Verified 2026-08-04
Progress WhatsUp Gold vulnerability
Progress WhatsUp Gold contains a SQL injection vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve encrypted user passwords when configured with a single user account.
Verdict
Today item, not a backlog item.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit SQL injection to extract encrypted credentials from WhatsUp Gold deployments, potentially leading to authentication bypass and lateral movement within monitored infrastructure.
CISA KEV Yes · 2024-09-165Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.94661 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 9.83CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
366 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-16), flagged for known ransomware use.
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.94661 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Progress, WhatsUp Gold. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-89 SQL Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 18 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a public proof-of-concept / detection template). Catalog entries: Metasploit module, nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious SQL query and send it through an unauthenticated application endpoint to bypass authentication checks.
Business
The application fails to validate user input before executing database queries, creating an entry point for unauthorized data access.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I extract encrypted password hashes from the database by manipulating SQL syntax to retrieve credential records.
Business
Sensitive authentication material is exposed, compromising the confidentiality of user accounts and administrative access.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I use the recovered encrypted credentials as a stepping stone to compromise additional systems or escalate privileges within the monitored environment.
Business
Attackers gain persistent access to critical infrastructure monitoring systems, enabling reconnaissance for ransomware deployment or data exfiltration campaigns.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by ProgressSoftwareCNA