PT-2023-22460 · Fortra · Fortra Globalscape Eft

Ron Bowes · CVE-2023-2990 · Published 2023-06-22 · Updated 2023-06-30

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Fortra Globalscape EFT versions prior to 8.1.0.16

Description The issue is related to a denial of service, where a compressed message that decompresses to itself can cause infinite recursion, leading to a service crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.1.0.16, update to version 8.1.0.16 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-2990

Affected Products

Fortra Globalscape Eft

References · 6

• 🔥 https://rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/22/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-fortra-globalscape-eft-administration-server-fixed · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2990 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2990 · Vendor Advisory
• https://kb.globalscape.com/Knowledgebase/11588/Is-EFT-susceptible-to-the-Denial-of-service-via-recursive-Deflate-Stream-vulnerability · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/true_secator/4537 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/52899 · Telegram Post