module

Progress Software WS_FTP Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Disclosed
2023-09-27
Created
2023-10-04

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

sfewer-r7

Platform

Windows

Architectures

cmd

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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