From securityonline.info
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Resecurity has uncovered a widespread campaign exploiting critical vulnerabilities in ServiceNow, a popular platform for digital workflows. The flaws, identified as CVE-2024-4879, CVE-2024-5217, and CVE-2024-5178, allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute code remotely and steal sensitive data.
The widespread use of ServiceNow, particularly within major corporations and government entities, has made it a prime target for threat actors. Resecurity’s investigation uncovered a rapid surge in malicious activity immediately following the public release of a proof-of-concept exploit. Attackers, armed with this knowledge, wasted no time in scanning the internet for vulnerable instances, primarily leveraging CVE-2024-4879 to execute code remotely and exfiltrate sensitive data.
Estimating the impact is challenging, but ServiceNow is an extremely popular platform for managing digital workflows in modern IT environments. According to the output of FOFA, a popular network search engine from China, approximately 300,000 ServiceNow instances could be potentially probed remotely. These instances may have different ACL (Access Control Lists) or other access limitations at both the network and application levels, making this only an approximate estimation.