CVE-2023-2990

Fortra Globalscape Administration Server Denial of Service

7.5 High

Fortra Globalscape EFT versions before 8.1.0.16 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability, where a compressed message that decompresses to itself can cause infinite recursion and crash the service

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

0.90%Up 0.9 points since Jun 23, 2023

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

Record: CVE-2023-2990
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-674
Updated: 2026-11-02

CVE List No score

Fortra Globalscape Administration Server Denial of Service

Record: CVE-2023-2990
Weakness: CWE-400
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2023-34426 0.0

Record: EUVD-2023-34426
CVSS: 0.0 NoneCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated: 2026-11-03

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hcg7-gqc4-qc5q 7.5

Fortra Globalscape EFT versions before 8.1.0.16 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability,...

Record: GHSA-hcg7-gqc4-qc5q
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-674
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 3, 2026	aliases, published	EUVD
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-2990 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Fortra Globalscape Eft, published June 22, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.90%, the 59th percentile. No source names a fixed version.