MOVEit Transfer Security Updates – 24 September 2023

MOVEit Transfer has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Progress MOVEit Transfer.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the remote attacker to perform either cross-site scripting attack by sending specially crafted URLs, or SQL injection attack to view, add, modify, or delete information in the back-end database on the affected system.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

1. Progress MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2023-42660):

  • CVSS: 8.8
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Data Manipulation

2. Progress MOVEit Transfer Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2023-42656):

  • CVSS: 6.1
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Consequences: Cross-Site Scripting

Affected versions:

  • MOVEit Transfer 2023.0.x (15.0.x).
  • MOVEit Transfer 2022.1.x (14.1.x).
  • MOVEit Transfer 2022.0.x (14.0.x).
  • MOVEit Transfer 2021.1.x (13.1.x).
  • MOVEit Transfer 2021.0.x (13.0.x) or older.
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2023-40043
  • CVE-2023-42656
  • CVE-2023-42660
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

MOVEit Transfer Security Updates

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