CVE-2023-40044

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Dat

Publication date:

27/09/2023

Last modified:

31/10/2025

Description

In WS_FTP Server versions prior to 8.7.4 and 8.8.2, a pre-authenticated attacker could leverage a .NET deserialization vulnerability in the Ad Hoc Transfer module to execute remote commands on the underlying WS_FTP Server operating system.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

10.00

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:progress:ws_ftp_server::::::::		8.7.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:progress:ws_ftp_server::::::::	8.8 (including)	8.8.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-40044

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools