CVE-2023-2991

Fortra Globalscape EFT's administration server suffers from an information disclosure vulnerability where the serial number of the harddrive that Globalscape is installed on can be remotely determined via a "trial extension request" message

CVSS 5.3 · Medium

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Metadata

Canonical fields

NVD status

Unavailable

Published

Jun 22, 2023

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Official record

Authoritative NVD record

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE IDs

Vendor classifications

How this vector reads

CVSS 3.1 base metrics decoded below. This explanation does not recalculate or change the NVD score.

Attack Vector (AV): Network. The vulnerable system can be reached across network boundaries.
Attack Complexity (AC): Low. No special conditions beyond the attacker-controlled steps are required.
Privileges Required (PR): None. The attacker needs no privileges on the vulnerable system.
User Interaction (UI): None. Exploitation does not require another user to act.
Scope (S): Unchanged. Impacts remain within the vulnerable security authority.
Confidentiality Impact (C): Low. There is a limited impact to this security property.
Integrity Impact (I): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Availability Impact (A): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.

Signals

Exploitation indicators

0 stored signals · no KEV · 0 OTX pulses