# CVE-2024-25156: Path traversal in GoAnywhere MFT 7.4.1 and Earlier


- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3xgg-p2vx-fw2j

## What is CVE-2024-25156?

CVE-2024-25156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, published on 14 Mar 2024. 

### Official description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.4.2 which allows attackers to circumvent endpoint-specific permission checks in the GoAnywhere Admin and Web Clients.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25156?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fortra Goanywhere Managed File Transfer.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-25156?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-25156 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-25156 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25156 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT

- [CVE-2025-10035](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10035/): Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-0669](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0669/): Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Remote Code Execution (high 7.2, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2024-0204](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0204/): Authentication Bypass in GoAnywhere MFT (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-14362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14362/): GoAnywhere MFT SFTP Service Login Vulnerable to Brute Force Attack Under Certain Circumstances (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2026-1089](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-1089/): User‑Controlled HTTP Header In Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Allows Arbitrary DNS Lookups (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-25156 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-25156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT, published on 14 Mar 2024. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25156 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fortra GoAnywhere MFT. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25156/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25156/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25156
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25156
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-25156

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25156/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.