CVE-2023-40044

What the flaw is

Progress WS_FTP Server contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in the Ad Hoc Transfer module that allows an authenticated attacker to execute remote commands on the underlying operating system.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

12 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack
• 0xAj-Krishna/biggest-hack-2023-24
• ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
• Ostorlab/KEV
• Ostorlab/known_exploited_vulnerbilities_detectors
• XRSec/AWVS-Update
• bhaveshharmalkar/learn365
• f0ur0four/Insecure-Deserialization

Showing 8 of 12. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

Vendor advisories

• community.progress.com/s/article/WS-FTP-Server-Critical-Vulnerability-Septembe
• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40044

Primary sources

• NVD entry — CVSS score, CPE list and references
• CISA KEV catalog — the source for this page
• CVE Record at cve.org