CVE-2024-0204 (GCVE-0-2024-0204)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-22 18:05 – Updated: 2025-05-30 14:22Title
Authentication Bypass in GoAnywhere MFT
Summary
Authentication bypass in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.4.1 allows an unauthorized user to create an admin user via the administration portal.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-08 15:41 UTC
CWE
- CWE-425 - Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')
Assigner
References
4 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortra | GoAnywhere MFT |
Affected:
6.0.1 , < 7.4.1
(semver)
|
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
KEV entry ID: 8296040e-c56c-47ec-9e95-04125bc0d455
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
First Seen: 2025-04-24
Asserted: 2025-04-24
Scope
Notes: Authentication Bypass in GoAnywhere MFT | Affected: Fortra / GoAnywhere MFT | CVSS: 9.8 (CRITICAL) | EPSS: 0.95086 | Used in malware: unknown | Not yet in CISA KEV: True
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: previdian
Details
| Feed | Previdian (previdian.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | Authentication Bypass in GoAnywhere MFT |
| Cve Id | CVE-2024-0204 |
| Vendor | Fortra |
| Ghsa Id | None |
| Product | GoAnywhere MFT |
| Added Date | 2025-04-24T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 9.8 |
| Epss Score | 0.95086 |
| Previous Ids | |
| Cvss Severity | CRITICAL |
| Virtual Patch | False |
| Cvss Estimated | False |
| Epss Percentile | 0.99862 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Vulnerability Id | CVE-2024-0204 |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | True |
References
Created: 2026-10-02 09:10 CEST
| Updated: 2026-10-02 09:10 CEST
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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