CVE-2024-5445
Ecosystem Agent Insufficient Transport Layer Security
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- N-able
Description
Ecosystem Agent version 4 < 4.1.5.2597 and Ecosystem Agent version 5 < 5.1.4.2473 did not properly validate SSL/TLS certificates, which could allow a malicious actor to perform a Man-in-the-Middle and intercept traffic between the agent and N-able servers from a privileged network position.
Timeline
ID reserved
By N-able
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| N-ableCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Low3.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 78% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 4.1.5.2597
- affected < 5.1.4.2473
What to do
Solution: Ecosystem Agents have been updated automatically. Check that the Ecosystem Agent has been updated to v4.5.1.2597 for version 4 agents or v5.1.4273 for version 5 agents or newer. Please review the referenced knowledge base articles for checking Ecosystem agent version numbers and contact support if the agent hasn't updated.
References (3)
- https://me.n-able.com/s/article/How-to-check-Ecosystem-Agent-version-in-N-central (opens in a new tab)
- https://me.n-able.com/s/article/How-to-check-Ecosystem-Agent-Version-in-N-sight (opens in a new tab)
- https://me.n-able.com/s/security-advisory/aArVy0000000BhpKAE/cve20245445-ecosystem-agent-insufficient-transport-layer-security (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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