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Progress Software WS_FTP Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Disclosed
09/27/2023
Created
10/04/2023

Description

This module exploits an unsafe .NET deserialization vulnerability to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution against a vulnerable WS_FTP server running the Ad Hoc Transfer module. All versions of WS_FTP Server prior to 2020.0.4 (version 8.7.4) and 2022.0.2 (version 8.8.2) are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability was originally discovered by AssetNote.

Author(s)

  • sfewer-r7

Platform

Windows

Architectures

cmd

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/windows/http/ws_ftp_rce_cve_2023_40044
msf exploit(ws_ftp_rce_cve_2023_40044) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(ws_ftp_rce_cve_2023_40044) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(ws_ftp_rce_cve_2023_40044) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(ws_ftp_rce_cve_2023_40044) > exploit

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