CVE-2023-35708 — Moveit Transfer
CRITICALCVE-2023-35708 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in progress moveit transfer. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 96.7% (100th percentile). A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
In Progress MOVEit Transfer before 2021.0.8 (13.0.8), 2021.1.6 (13.1.6), 2022.0.6 (14.0.6), 2022.1.7 (14.1.7), and 2023.0.3 (15.0.3), a SQL injection vulnerability has been identified…
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2023-35708.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2023-35708 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 398,142 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
In Progress MOVEit Transfer before 2021.0.8 (13.0.8), 2021.1.6 (13.1.6), 2022.0.6 (14.0.6), 2022.1.7 (14.1.7), and 2023.0.3 (15.0.3), a SQL injection vulnerability has been identified in the MOVEit Transfer web application that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer's database. An attacker could submit a crafted payload to a MOVEit Transfer application endpoint that could result in modification and disclosure of MOVEit database content. These are fixed versions of the DLL drop-in: 2020.1.10 (12.1.10), 2021.0.8 (13.0.8), 2021.1.6 (13.1.6), 2022.0.6 (14.0.6), 2022.1.7 (14.1.7), and 2023.0.3 (15.0.3).
Affected Products
moveit transferprogressDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every progress moveit transfer deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the progress moveit transfer security patch or hotfix for CVE-2023-35708 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2023-35708
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2023-35708 -u https://target- Template
- MOVEit Transfer - SQL Injection
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers can modify and disclose sensitive database content, leading to data breach and potential system compromise.
- Remediation
- Update to fixed versions: 2020.1.10, 2021.0.8, 2021.1.6, 2022.0.6, 2022.1.7, or latest available version.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (daffainfo, jjcho), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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