Security News > 2024 > June > Hackers target new MOVEit Transfer critical auth bypass bug

Threat actors are already trying to exploit a critical authentication bypass flaw in Progress MOVEit Transfer, less than a day after the vendor disclosed it.

MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer solution used in enterprise environments to securely transfer files between business partners and customers using the SFTP, SCP, and HTTP protocols.

The new security issue received the identifier CVE-2024-5806 and allows attackers to bypass the authentication process in the Secure File Transfer Protocol module, which is responsible for file transfer operations over SSH. An attacker leveraging this flaw could access sensitive data stored on the MOVEit Transfer server, upload, download, delete, or modify files, and intercept or tamper with file transfers.

Network scans by Censys indicate that there are currently around 2,700 internet-exposed MOVEit Transfer instances, most located in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Fixes were made available in MOVEit Transfer 2023.0.11, 2023.1.6, and 2024.0.2, available on the Progress Community portal.

To mitigate this flaw until a fix from the third-party vendor is made available, system administrators are advised to block Remote Desktop Protocol access to the MOVEit Transfer servers and restrict outbound connections to known/trusted endpoints.

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