Today FortiGuard Labs is releasing this blog post about a case where an advanced adversary was observed exploiting three vulnerabilities affecting the Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA). At the time of the investigation, two out of the three identified vulnerabilities were not publicly known.
This incident is a prime example of how threat actors chain zero-day vulnerabilities to gain initial access to a victim’s network. Background In a recent incident response engagement, FortiGuard Incident Response (FGIR) came across an adversary who had gained access to the customer’s network by exploiting the CVE-2024-8190 and two previously unknown vulnerabilities affecting the PHP front end of the Ivanti CSA appliance.
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Source: Fortinet
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