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Unknown
CVE-2023-2990
Fortra Globalscape Administration Server Denial of Service
Vulnerability 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
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
Fortra
View all reports →Affected Software
Globalscape EFT
Vulnerable Versions:
8.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 22nd, 2023
Last Modified:
December 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
No vector data available