🛡️ CVE-2023-40044
🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-502 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In WS_FTP Server versions prior to 8.7.4 and 8.8.2, a pre-authenticated attacker could leverage a .NET deserialization vulnerability in the Ad Hoc Transfer module to execute remote commands on the underlying WS_FTP Server operating system.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-27
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-10-31
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ws-ftp-server 8.8 8.8.2

References

Third Party Advisory https://censys.com/cve-2023-40044/
Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/ws_ftp_update/
Third Party Advisory https://censys.com/cve-2023-40044/
Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/ws_ftp_update/

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