CVE-2026-90861EUVD-2026-113018GHSA-9RPC-QGVP-GFFM
Password Disclosure via Activity Logs Enabling Administrator Privilege Escalation in WS_FTP Server
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 2024.0.7, 2025.0.4
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
CISA's decision points: whether it is exploited, whether attacks can be automated, and how much control an attacker gets. Assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).What do these mean? →
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
Progress Software's WS_FTP Server on Windows, in versions released before the 2024 and 2025 fixes, can expose user passwords in clear text within activity logs. An administrator who can read those logs could use a captured password to gain broader administrative control of the server.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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Progress Software WS_FTP Server versions prior to 2024.0.7 and 2025.0.4 on Windows may expose a user's password in clear text to another administrator, who could use it to gain broader administrative access to the server.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Progress Software WS_FTP Server
fixed in 2024.0.7; fixed in 2025.0.4