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CVE-2025-10035 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-08-04

Fortra GoAnywhere MFT vulnerability

Fortra GoAnywhere MFT contains a deserialization vulnerability allowing attackers with forged license signatures to inject arbitrary commands through untrusted object deserialization.

Verdict

Today item, not a backlog item.

An attacker who can forge a valid license response signature can deserialize malicious objects in GoAnywhere MFT, achieving command injection. This vulnerability is actively exploited in ransomware campaigns.

CISA KEV Yes · 2025-09-295Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.99614 (verify live)6CVSS 103CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4Exploit Public PoC / detection · nuclei template13
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Reported exploitation
24 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-09-29), flagged for known ransomware use.
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.99614 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 10 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Fortra, GoAnywhere MFT. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
CVE.org ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-77 Command Injection, CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CVE.org ↗Reported
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
CISA-ADP ↗Reported
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 11 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a public proof-of-concept / detection template). Catalog entries: nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
nuclei ↗Confirmed
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution not established

No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board
1

Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1

Attacker
I craft a fraudulent license response with a valid signature by exploiting the deserialization flaw.
Business
The organization's file transfer system becomes a vector for unauthorized code execution.
2

Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2

Attacker
I inject arbitrary commands through the deserialized object payload during license validation.
Business
Attackers gain command execution privileges on the MFT server hosting sensitive file transfers.
3

Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3

Attacker
I establish persistence and lateral movement within the network using the compromised MFT instance.
Business
Ransomware operators encrypt critical business data and demand payment, disrupting operations.
04

What to do

— defensible action
  • Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • Ransomware-use flag (CISA)
  • EPSS probability (FIRST)
  • 24 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CVSS 10 — CNA-assigned (CVE.org)
  • CISA SSVC triage disposition (CVE.org ADP)
  • CWE weakness mapping — CNA-assigned (CVE.org)
  • Catalogued by Fortra (CNA)
  • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.
  • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by FortraCNA
    Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.