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CVE-2025-10035
GoAnywhere - Authentication Bypass
Exploited in the wild. Listed by CISA on 2025-09-29; known to be used by ransomware.
criticalseverity
99.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days
100%of all CVEs are less likely
Readycheck to confirm it
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the License Servlet caused by deserializing attacker-controlled objects with a valid forged license response signature, letting attackers perform command injection, exploit requires valid forged license signature.
Impact
Attackers can execute arbitrary commands remotely, potentially leading to full system compromise.
Fix
Update to the latest version with the deserialization fix.
How to confirm it
Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/goanywhere/license/Unlicensed.xhtml/{{string}}?javax.faces.ViewState={{string}}&GARequestAction=activate ; GET {{BaseURL}}/license/Unlicensed.xhtml/{{string}}?javax.faces.ViewState={{string}}&GARequestAction=activate
Positive when: contains_all(location, "request?bundle=", "my.goanywhere.com") and status_code == 302Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2025-10035 -u <target>
The full check
id: CVE-2025-10035
info:
name: GoAnywhere - Authentication Bypass
author: DhiyaneshDk,watchtowr
severity: critical
description: |
Fortra GoAnywhere MFT contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the License Servlet caused by deserializing attacker-controlled objects with a valid forged license response signature, letting attackers perform command injection, exploit requires valid forged license signature.
reference:
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/is-this-bad-this-feels-bad-goanywhere-cve-2025-10035/
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/LbA9ANjcdz/cve-2025-10035/rapid7-analysis
- https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2025-011
impact: |
Attackers can execute arbitrary commands remotely, potentially leading to full system compromise.
remediation: |
Update to the latest version with the deserialization fix.
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
shodan-query: title:"GoAnywhere"
fofa-query: title="GoAnywhere"
tags: cve,cve2025,goanywhere,auth-bypass,vkev,kev,vuln
variables:
string: "{{to_lower(rand_text_alpha(5))}}"
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/goanywhere/license/Unlicensed.xhtml/{{string}}?javax.faces.ViewState={{string}}&GARequestAction=activate"
- "{{BaseURL}}/license/Unlicensed.xhtml/{{string}}?javax.faces.ViewState={{string}}&GARequestAction=activate"
stop-at-first-match: true
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- contains_all(location, "request?bundle=", "my.goanywhere.com")
- status_code == 302
condition: and
extractors:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- locationReferences
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/is-this-bad-this-feels-bad-goanywhere-cve-2025-10035/
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/LbA9ANjcdz/cve-2025-10035/rapid7-analysis
- https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2025-011
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