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CVE-2026-90863critical9.1

Privilege Escalation via Missing Authorization in WS_FTP Manager

Impact

Progress Software WS_FTP Server versions prior to 2024.0.7 and 2025.0.4 on Windows have a missing authorization weakness, potentially allowing a delegated Host Administrator to exceed their scope and execute commands with elevated privileges. The impact may include complete server compromise. A delegated Host Administrator is required to exploit this vulnerability.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

What to do

Limit delegation of the Host Administrator role to trusted staff, and review existing Host Administrator accounts and their setting's scope and permissions. Contact Progress Software Technical Support for guidance on available mitigations.

ProgressSoftware guidance

Affected packages

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Progress Software · ProgressSoftware

WS_FTP Server

2 ranges
ProgressSoftware version evidence
Platforms: Windows

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affected

0 → before 2024.0.7

custom versions

0 → before 2025.0.4

custom versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

Missing authorization in the administrative interface of Progress Software WS_FTP Server versions prior to 2024.0.7 and 2025.0.4 on Windows could allow a delegated Host Administrator to exceed their authorized scope, potentially enabling arbitrary command execution with elevated privileges and complete compromise of the underlying server.

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CVE-2026-90863

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-915 ↗

CWE-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

ProgressSoftware

Related →
CWE-862 ↗

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

ProgressSoftware

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Contributing organizations · 2
ProgressSoftware

Assigning organization

2026-10-29
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-10-30

What changed

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-90863

    Observed 2026-10-30T18:54:59.686Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T17:18:25.132Z

    Prioritization updated

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      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
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        "name": "Automatable",
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        "name": "Technical Impact",
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  }
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    after

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    "timestamp": "2026-10-30T03:56:38.763130Z",
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        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
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        "name": "Technical Impact",
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    ]
  }
]
  2. CVE · CVE-2026-90863

    Observed 2026-10-30T04:16:00.123Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T03:56:38.294Z

    Prioritization updated

    before

    []

    after

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  {
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      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "no"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "total"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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References

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progress.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/Knowledge__kav/ka7Pb000001vl86IAA/view
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