CVE-2023-6218 — In Progress MOVEit Transfer versions released before 2022

In Progress MOVEit Transfer versions released before 2022.0.9 (14.0.9), 2022.1.10 (14.1.10), 2023.0.7 (15.0.7), a privilege escalation path associated with group administrators has been identified. It is possible for a group administrator to elevate a group members permissions to

01What is this vulnerability?

In Progress MOVEit Transfer versions released before 2022.0.9 (14.0.9), 2022.1.10 (14.1.10), 2023.0.7 (15.0.7), a privilege escalation path associated with group administrators has been identified. It is possible for a group administrator to elevate a group members permissions to the role of an organization administrator.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Progress Software Corporation	MOVEit Transfer	2023.1.0(15.1.0), 2023.0.0 (15.0.0), 2022.1.0 (14.1.0), 2022.0.0 (14.0.0)

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: 2023-11-29T16:14:17.324Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T08:21:17.955Z

09References

• www.progress.com — https://www.progress.com/moveit
• community.progress.com — https://community.progress.com/s/article/MOVEit-Transfer-Service-Pack-November-2…