Fortra GoAnywhere MFT License Response Servlet Command Injection

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-0669
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerrapid7
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-06 20:15:14 UTC
Updated2026-08-06 05:16:38 UTC
DescriptionFortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. This issue was patched in version 7.1.2.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.2 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.999990000 probability, percentile 0.999960000 (date 2026-08-15)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2023-02-10; due 2023-03-03; ransomware use Known

Problem Types: CWE-502 | CWE-502 CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1ADPDECLARED7.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary7.2HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorFortra
ProductGoAnywhere MFT
NameFortra GoAnywhere MFT Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
NotesThis CVE has a CISA AA located here: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-158a. Please see the AA for associated IOCs. Additional information is available at: https://my.goanywhere.com/webclient/DownloadProductFiles.xhtml. Fortra users must have an account in order to login and access the patch.; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0669

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fortra Goanywhere Managed File Transfer All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Fortra Goanywhere MFT affected 7.1.1 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
BrianKrebs: "GoAnywhere MFT, a popular file transfer applicati…" - Infosec Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 infosec.exchange Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 my.goanywhere.com Product
Exploitation of GoAnywhere MFT zero-day vulnerability | Rapid7 Blog af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.rapid7.com Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2023-0669 | AttackerKB af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 attackerkb.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Fortra Patches Actively Exploited Zero Day in GoAnywhere MFT | Decipher af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 duo.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
Fortra deserialization RCE CVE-2023-0669 (ETR) by rbowes-r7 · Pull Request #17607 · rapid7/metasploit-framework · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 www.cisa.gov US Government Resource
Goanywhere Encryption Helper 7.1.1 Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
GoAnywhere MFT - A Forgotten Bug | Frycos Security Diary af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 frycos.github.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security (en)

CNA: Ron Bowes of Rapid7 (en)

CNA: Caitlin Condon of Rapid7 (en)

CNA: Fryco of Frycos Security (en)

Additional Advisory Data

SourceTimeEvent
ADP2023-02-10T00:00:00.000ZCVE-2023-0669 added to CISA KEV

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 730720 GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability

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