CVE-2020-12677 — An issue was discovered in Progress MOVEit Automation Web Admin

An issue was discovered in Progress MOVEit Automation Web Admin. A Web Admin application endpoint failed to adequately sanitize malicious input, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in a victim's browser, aka XSS. This affects 2018 - 2018.0

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in Progress MOVEit Automation Web Admin. A Web Admin application endpoint failed to adequately sanitize malicious input, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in a victim's browser, aka XSS. This affects 2018 - 2018.0 prior to 2018.0.3, 2018 SP1 - 2018.2 prior to 2018.2.3, 2018 SP2 - 2018.3 prior to 2018.3.7, 2019 - 2019.0 prior to…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-05-14T17:34:03.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:04:22.530Z

09References

• community.progress.com — https://community.progress.com/s/article/MOVEit-Automation-Cross-Site-Scripting-…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2018/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#33958.…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2018SP1/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#339…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2018SP2/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#339…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2019/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#33958.…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2019_1/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#3395…
• docs.ipswitch.com — https://docs.ipswitch.com/MOVEit/Automation2019_2/ReleaseNotes/en/index.htm#3395…