# CVE-2024-21136: Retail Xstore Office - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-21136 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-2024-21136

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 8.6
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Oracle Retail Xstore Office
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)
- **Tags:** enterprise_software

## Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Retail Xstore Office product of Oracle Retail Applications (component: Security). Supported versions that are affected are 19.0.5, 20.0.3, 20.0.4, 22.0.0 and 23.0.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Retail Xstore Office. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Retail Xstore Office, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change).

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-21136](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21136) is a security vulnerability in Oracle Retail Xstore Office that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to compromise the system through a path traversal issue, potentially impacting the confidentiality and integrity of affected environments.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 20th of May 2025.

According to CrowdSec data, while opportunistic exploitation dominates, a portion of threat actors trying to exploit CVE-2024-21136 apply basic targeting methods such as port or service detection. This indicates emerging patterns of selective targeting.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2024-21136 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-21136 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Exploitation attempts typically involve requests to URLs containing `/xstoremgwt/cheetahimages` and abusing crafted path traversal payloads within parameters.

## Timeline

- 2024-07-16: CVE Published. CVE-2024-21136 is published to NVD.
- 2025-05-20: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-21136 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-05-20: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-21136 for the first time.

## References

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2024.html
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-21136.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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