Very Low
CVE-2023-2990
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CVE-2023-2990
MITRE ATT&CK
Collection
Command and Control
Credential Access
Defense Evasion
Discovery
Execution
Exfiltration
Impact
Initial Access
Lateral Movement
Persistence
Privilege Escalation
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Description
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
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Attacker ValueVery Low
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ExploitabilityVery High
Technical Analysis
This is effectively a zipbomb – the inbound message parser for the Fortra Globalscape’s admin protocol accepts compressed messages, but the decompression code is recursive. That means that, if you send a message that decompresses into itself with a short header (effectively a “quine”), it will recurse infinitely and eventually blow the stack.
While it doesn’t give any useful access, it’s a neat vuln with a (mathematically) neat exploit!
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Vendors
- globalscape
Products
- eft server
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