CVE-2024-55550 — Mitel MiCollab Path Traversal Vulnerability
Overview
Mitel MiCollab contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow an authenticated attacker with administrative privileges to read local files within the system due to insufficient input sanitization. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2024-41713, which allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the server.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-55550
- Vulnerability
- Mitel MiCollab Path Traversal Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Mitel
- Affected products
- Mitel: MiCollab
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2025-01-07
Remediation guidance
CVE-2024-55550 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Mitel the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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