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Using GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers? Patch now – an exploit’s out for a critical bug

January 24, 2024

Security experts are wasting no time in publishing working exploits for a critical vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, which was publicly disclosed just over a day ago.

Customers were first advised by Fortra on the mitigations for the critical authentication bypass hole in December, and it wasn’t publicly revealed for more than a month.

Researchers from Horizon3 used the clues left behind in Fortra’s public advisory, published on January 22, to develop a working exploit and demonstrate how new admin users could be created by unauthenticated attackers.

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