Resource exhaustion in Fortra Globalscape Eft
CVE-2023-2990
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
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.009 (56.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Fortra Globalscape Eft — versions 8.0.0
- Globalscape Eft_server
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@rapid7.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@rapid7.com (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-2990?
- CVE-2023-2990 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fortra Globalscape Eft, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-06-22.
- How severe is CVE-2023-2990?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-2990 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.