Progress (formerly Ipswitch) has released a security update for two critical vulnerabilities found in the SFTP module of the MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806) and MOVEit Gateway (CVE-2024-5805) applications.
MOVEit is a managed secure file transfer tool. The improper authentication vulnerability known as CVE-2024-5806 has a CVSSv3 score of 9.1 and can lead to authentication bypass in MOVEit Transfer. CVE-2024-3805 is also an improper authentication vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 9.1, which can lead to authentication bypass in MOVEit Gateway.
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Source: NHS Digital
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