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CVE-2026-90869high7.5

Pre-Authentication SSH Denial of Service via Malformed Public-Key Signature in Progress WS_FTP Server

Impact

Progress WS_FTP Server on Windows, versions prior to 2024.0.7 and 2025.0.4, is vulnerable to a denial of service via a malformed public-key signature. A remote attacker with a valid account's SSH public key can terminate the shared SSH service.

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

What to do

Restrict network access to the SSH/SFTP service to trusted clients and disable SSH/SFTP access if it is not required. 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
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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

A remote attacker who knows a valid account's enrolled SSH public key can terminate the shared SSH service in Progress Software WS_FTP Server versions prior to 2024.0.7 and 2025.0.4 on Windows.

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CVE-2026-90869

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-125 ↗

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

ProgressSoftware

Related →
CWE-20 ↗

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

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-2026-90869

    Observed 2026-10-30T18:55:10.102Z · upstream updated 2026-10-30T17:14:35.864Z

    Prioritization updated

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  {
    "source": "CISA-ADP",
    "type": "SSVC",
    "role": "CISA Coordinator",
    "timestamp": "2026-10-30T17:14:25.359940Z",
    "decisions": [
      {
        "name": "Exploitation",
        "value": "none"
      },
      {
        "name": "Automatable",
        "value": "yes"
      },
      {
        "name": "Technical Impact",
        "value": "partial"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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References

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