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CVE-2020-12677:
MOVEit Automation vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2020-12677 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in Progress MOVEit Automation Web Admin application. The vulnerability was identified in May 2020 and affects MOVEit Automation Web Admin 2018 and earlier versions. The issue stems from inadequate sanitization of malicious input at a Web Admin application endpoint (Progress Community, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization in the MOVEit Automation Web Admin interface. This security flaw could potentially allow malicious actors to execute cross-site scripting attacks through specially crafted input (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Progress released a security patch to address this vulnerability. The mitigation process involves turning off the 'MOVEit Automation' windows service, uninstalling the existing version, and applying the security update (Progress Community).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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