CVE-2024-51453 IBM Sterling Secure Proxy directory traversal

What is CVE-2024-51453?

CVE-2024-51453 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, published on 28 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.2.0.0 through 6.2.0.1 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51453?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Sterling Secure Proxy.

How do I fix CVE-2024-51453?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51453 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-51453 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-51453 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

• CVE-2024-38337 IBM Sterling Secure Proxy improper input validation Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-41783 IBM Sterling Secure Proxy improper input validation Critical 9.1
• CVE-2024-41784 IBM Sterling Secure Proxy directory traversal High 7.5
• CVE-2016-6023 Path traversal in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2023-47162 IBM Secure Proxy cross-site scripting Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2fcj-g7j8-pg57.