CVE-2024-5016: Progress WhatsUp Gold

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 22.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In WhatsUp Gold versions released before 2023.1.3, Distributed Edition installations can be exploited by using a deserialization tool to achieve a Remote Code Execution as SYSTEM.  The vulnerability exists in the main message processing routines NmDistributed.DistributedServiceBehavior.OnMessage for server and NmDistributed.DistributedClient.OnMessage for clients.

Affected products

• Progress WhatsUp Gold: before 23.1.0 (fixed in 23.1.0); version 23.1.0 only

Published 2024-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.