FKIE_CVE-2023-2990

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-22 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:53
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Fortra Globalscape EFT versions before 8.1.0.16 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability, where a compressed message that decompresses to itself can cause infinite recursion and crash the service
References
cve@rapid7.comhttps://kb.globalscape.com/Knowledgebase/11588/Is-EFT-susceptible-to-the-Denial-of-service-via-recursive-Deflate-Stream-vulnerabilityVendor Advisory
cve@rapid7.comhttps://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/22/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-fortra-globalscape-eft-administration-server-fixed/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.globalscape.com/Knowledgebase/11588/Is-EFT-susceptible-to-the-Denial-of-service-via-recursive-Deflate-Stream-vulnerabilityVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/22/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-fortra-globalscape-eft-administration-server-fixed/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
globalscape eft_server *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:53:57.600",
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