cve-2025-3871
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-16 14:00
Modified
2025-07-18 14:52
Summary
Broken Access Control Leads to Limited Denial of Service in GoAnywhere MFT 7.8.0 and earlier
Impacted products
FortraGoAnywhere MFT
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