# CVE-2024-1212 — Progress Software LoadMaster

**CISA KEV**

> As of 2025-10-21, CVE-2024-1212 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Progress Software LoadMaster, CVSS v3.1 10, EPSS 95.3% (99.8th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-18), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-12-09. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2024-1212, most recently “CVE-2026-8037: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection in Progress Kemp LoadMaster via Uninitialized Heap in escape_quotes() (CVSS 9.6-9.8, Active Exploitation)”.

**Last updated:** 2025-10-21

## What is CVE-2024-1212?

Unauthenticated remote attackers can access the system through the LoadMaster management interface, enabling arbitrary system command execution.

The record classifies CVE-2024-1212 under weakness class [CWE-78](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cwe/CWE-78). Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 962 days ago.

## Severity and exploitation probability

- **CVSS v3.1 base score:** 10 — CRITICAL (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **EPSS (FIRST):** 95.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs
- **CISA KEV:** Listed since 2024-11-18, federal remediation deadline 2024-12-09
- **Threadlinqs priority:** 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- **Published:** 2024-02-21, last modified 2025-10-21

## Is CVE-2024-1212 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2024-1212 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-18, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-12-09 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2024-1212 is publicly available. 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. A ProjectDiscovery Nuclei detection template exists (`http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-1212.yaml`). It currently carries a trending score of 50 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

- [Chocapikk/CVE-2024-1212](https://github.com/Chocapikk/CVE-2024-1212) (github)
- [r0otk3r/CVE-2024-1212](https://github.com/r0otk3r/CVE-2024-1212) (github)
- [trickest/cve](https://github.com/trickest/cve/blob/main/2024/CVE-2024-1212.md) (trickest)

## Affected products and versions

- [Progress Software](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/vendors/progress-software): LoadMaster

## How to fix CVE-2024-1212

Because CVE-2024-1212 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-12-09. No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2024-1212 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

## Threat activity tracking CVE-2024-1212

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2024-1212, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

- [CVE-2026-8037: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection in Progress Kemp LoadMaster via Uninitialized Heap in escape_quotes() (CVSS 9.6-9.8, Active Exploitation)](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1067) — CRITICAL · 2026-07-02
- [CVE-2026-8037: Pre-Auth Command Injection RCE in Progress Kemp LoadMaster via Uninitialized-Heap escape_quotes() Flaw on /accessv2](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1045) — CRITICAL · 2026-07-01

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories, ProjectDiscovery Nuclei. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-10. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

**Vendor advisory and patch**

- [support.kemptechnologies.com — vendor advisory](https://support.kemptechnologies.com/hc/en-us/articles/24325072850573-Release-Notice-LMOS-7-2-59-2-7-2-54-8-7-2-48-10-CVE-2024-1212)
- [support.kemptechnologies.com — vendor advisory (23878931058445 LoadMaster Security Vulne)](https://support.kemptechnologies.com/hc/en-us/articles/23878931058445-LoadMaster-Security-Vulnerability-CVE-2024-1212)

**Issue tracking and product pages**

- [kemptechnologies.com — product](https://kemptechnologies.com/)
- [freeloadbalancer.com — product](https://freeloadbalancer.com/)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2024-1212
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2024-1212 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp