High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 22, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-2990

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

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Affected products

Globalscape/Eft Server
cpe:2.3:a:globalscape:eft_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <8.1.0.16
Fortra/Globalscape EFTcpe-rescue2 versions
8.0.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 8.0.0
- (no CPE)range: <8.1.0.16
Globalscape/EFTllm-create
Range: <8.1.0.16

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/22/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-fortra-globalscape-eft-administration-server-fixed/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
kb.globalscape.com/Knowledgebase/11588/Is-EFT-susceptible-to-the-Denial-of-service-via-recursive-Deflate-Stream-vulnerabilitynvdVendor Advisory

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