CVE-2025-3871

Published Jul 16, 2025

Last updated 2 days ago

CVSS medium 5.3

Overview

Description
Broken access control in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.8.1 allows an attacker to create a denial of service situation when configured to use GoAnywhere One-Time Password (GOTP) email two-factor authentication (2FA) and the user has not set an email address. In this scenario, the attacker may enter the email address of a known user when prompted and the user will be disabled if that user has configured GOTP.
Source
df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
5.3
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

df4dee71-de3a-4139-9588-11b62fe6c0ff
CWE-862

Social media

Hype score
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