Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary

CVECVE-2023-0669
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-06 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-10 20:15:00 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

EPSS: 0.943780000 probability, percentile 0.999680000 (date 2026-04-22)

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

Problem Types: CWE-502

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fortra Patches Actively Exploited Zero Day in GoAnywhere MFT | Decipher MISC duo.com
GoAnywhere MFT - A Forgotten Bug | Frycos Security Diary MISC frycos.github.io
Goanywhere Encryption Helper 7.1.1 Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
Customer Portal MISC my.goanywhere.com
CVE-2023-0669 | AttackerKB MISC attackerkb.com
Exploitation of GoAnywhere MFT zero-day vulnerability | Rapid7 Blog MISC www.rapid7.com
Fortra deserialization RCE CVE-2023-0669 (ETR) by rbowes-r7 · Pull Request #17607 · rapid7/metasploit-framework · GitHub MISC github.com
BrianKrebs: "GoAnywhere MFT, a popular file transfer applicati…" - Infosec Exchange MISC infosec.exchange
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

Legacy QID Mappings

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