Progress Software WS_FTP Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Posted on 04 October 2023

This Metasploit module exploits an unsafe .NET deserialization vulnerability to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution against a vulnerable WS_FTP server running the Ad Hoc Transfer module. All versions of WS_FTP Server prior to 2020.0.4 (version 8.7.4) and 2022.0.2 (version 8.8.2) are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability was originally discovered by AssetNote.