CVE-2024-5276 — Fortra Filecatalyst
CRITICALCVE-2024-5276 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in fortra filecatalyst. 1 public exploit or proof-of-concept reference is indexed, so weaponization risk is real. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
A SQL Injection vulnerability in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow allows an attacker to modify application data. Likely impacts include creation of administrative users and deletion or…
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-2024-5276.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Description
A SQL Injection vulnerability in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow allows an attacker to modify application data. Likely impacts include creation of administrative users and deletion or modification of data in the application database. Data exfiltration via SQL injection is not possible using this vulnerability. Successful unauthenticated exploitation requires a Workflow system with anonymous access enabled, otherwise an authenticated user is required. This issue affects all versions of FileCatalyst Workflow from 5.1.6 Build 135 and earlier.
Affected Products
filecatalystfortraResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every fortra filecatalyst deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-5276 yet — track the fortra filecatalyst advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
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-2024-5276
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-5276 -u https://target- Template
- Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow <= v5.1.6 - SQL Injection
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers can execute SQL injection to create administrative users, delete or modify application database content. Unauthenticated exploitation is possible if anonymous access is enabled.
- Remediation
- Update Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow to version 5.1.7 Build 136 or later to address the SQL injection vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (iamnoooob, rootxharsh, pdresearch), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-5276 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.