Exploited. On CISA's list since 2025-03-19.
NAKIVO Backup and Replication Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2024-48248 · NAKIVO Backup and Replication · Published 2025-03-04
How bad would it be?
8.6 out of 10
CVSS rates it high.
How likely is it to be used?
94%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Is it already being used?
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 569 days ago (2025-04-09).
What CISA says to do
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
NAKIVO Backup and Replication contains an absolute path traversal vulnerability that enables an attacker to read arbitrary files.
What the flaw is
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).
From the NVD.
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