# CVE-2024-1212: Progress Kemp LoadMaster - RCE

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-1212 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-1212

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 10.0
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Progress LoadMaster
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-78 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection'))
- **Tags:** web_application

## Description

Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-1212](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1212) is a critical vulnerability in the LoadMaster management interface that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 26th of March 2024.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2024-1212 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2024-1212 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-1212 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Exploitation patterns often involve requests to endpoints containing `/access/set?param=enableapi&value=1`.

## Timeline

- 2024-02-21: CVE Published. CVE-2024-1212 is published to NVD.
- 2024-03-26: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-1212 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2024-11-18: CISA KEV. CVE-2024-1212 is added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog by CISA.
- 2024-11-24: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-1212 for the first time.
- 2024-12-09: CISA Remediation Deadline. Expiration of the CISA remediation deadline as described in [BOD 22-01](https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/bod-22-01-reducing-significant-risk-known-exploited-vulnerabilities).

## References

- https://kemptechnologies.com/
- https://freeloadbalancer.com/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-1212.yaml

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-1212) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2024-1212. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.