# CVE-2024-20345: Path traversal in Cisco AppDynamics

> Authenticated attackers can exploit insufficient input validation in file upload functionality to access sensitive data via directory traversal.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 26 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-52jg-m3rm-ch68

## What is CVE-2024-20345?

CVE-2024-20345 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco AppDynamics, published on 6 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the file upload functionality of Cisco AppDynamics Controller could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks on an affected device. 

 This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access sensitive data on an affected device.

Weakness: CWE-26 (Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename')

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20345?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Appdynamics Controller.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-20345?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20345 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-20345 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco AppDynamics

- [CVE-2024-20346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20346/): Cross-site scripting in Cisco AppDynamics (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-20736](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20736/): Cisco AppDynamics Controller Authorization Bypass Vulnerability (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-20345 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-20345 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco AppDynamics, published on 6 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco AppDynamics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20345/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20345/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20345
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20345
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20345

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20345/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.