Deserialization of Untrusted Data in GoAnywhere MFT - CVE-2023-0669
Published: February 3, 2023 / Updated: October 25, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU71774
CSH Severity: Critical
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0669
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data passed to the "/goanywhere/lic/accept" HTTP endpoint of the administrative web interface. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
Affected software
GoAnywhere MFT
How to mitigate CVE-2023-0669
Install update from vendor's website.
GoAnywhere MFT - update to 7.1.2
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #10749 - Goanywhere Encryption helper 7.1.1 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (October 25, 2024)
- Exploit #9989 - CVE-2023-0669 (CVE-2023-0669 GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object.) (June 14, 2024)
- Exploit #8817 - Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Unsafe Deserialization RCE (February 9, 2023)
- Exploit #8798 - GoAnywhere MFT - A Forgotten Bug (February 7, 2023)