NVD / CVE Program· CNA ProgressSoftware

CVE-2023-6218: MOVEit Transfer Group Admin Privilege Escalation

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.69% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer 2022.0.9 (14.0.9), 2022.1.10 (14.1.10), 2023.0.7 (15.0.7).
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer 2022.0.9 (14.0.9), 2022.1.10 (14.1.10), 2023.0.7 (15.0.7) or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

BDU:2023-08275

Published: Nov 29, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.6% · 53th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.6%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 7.2
CNA · ProgressSoftware: 7.2; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
progress	moveit transfer	cpe:2.3:a:progress:moveit_transfer

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

progress moveit transferup to 2021.1.0 inclusive
progress moveit transfer2022.0.0 and later · before 2022.0.9
progress moveit transfer2022.1.0 and later · before 2022.1.10
progress moveit transfer2023.0.0 and later · before 2023.0.7
progress moveit transfer2023.1.0 and later · before 2023.1.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ProgressSoftware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer
- 2023.1.0(15.1.0) and later · before 2023.1.1(15.1.1)not affected · semver
- 2023.0.0 (15.0.0) and later · before 2023.0.7 (15.0.7)affected · semver
- 2022.1.0 (14.1.0) and later · before 2022.1.10 (14.1.10)affected · semver
- 2022.0.0 (14.0.0) and later · before 2022.0.9 (14.0.9)affected · semver

Same product

progress: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-35708In Progress MOVEit Transfer before 2021.0.8 (13.0.8), 2021.1.6 (13.1.6), 2022.0.6 (14.0.6), 2022.1.7 (14.1.7), and 2023.0.3 (15.0.3), a SQL
68This week
CVE-2023-36934In Progress MOVEit Transfer before 2020.1.11 (12.1.11), 2021.0.9 (13.0.9), 2021.1.7 (13.1.7), 2022.0.7 (14.0.7), 2022.1.8 (14.1.8), and 2023
65This week
CVE-2024-5806MOVEit Transfer Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
63This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-42660Sep 20, 2023 · MOVEit Transfer Machine Interface SQL Injection
35Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-6217Nov 29, 2023 · MOVEit Transfer XSS via MOVEit Gateway
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-0396Jan 17, 2024 · Missing Server-Side Input Validation in HTTP Parameter
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer	2022.0.9 (14.0.9)	Vendor (CNA)
Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer	2022.1.10 (14.1.10)	Vendor (CNA)
Progress Software Corporation MOVEit Transfer	2023.0.7 (15.0.7)	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-2324476 days apartA MOVEit Transfer user configured as a Shared Account can gain unintended List permissions on a folder
35Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-23-0687 · Dec 8, 2023(MOVEit Transfer Güvenlik Zafiyeti)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]