MOVEit Automation Input Validation Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation

Improper input validation vulnerability in Progress Software MOVEit Automation allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects MOVEit Automation: from 2025.1.0 before 2025.1.5, from 2025.0.0 before 2025.0.9, from 2024.0.0 before 2024.1.8, versions prior to 2024.0.0.

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Analysis

Progress Software's MOVEit Automation contains an improper input validation vulnerability (CWE-20) that allows attackers to escalate privileges within affected systems. This vulnerability impacts multiple versions across the 2024 and 2025 release lines, with the widest exposure in versions prior to 2024.0.0 and extending through early 2025 releases. Organizations deploying MOVEit Automation for secure file transfer automation face significant risk, as successful exploitation could grant attackers elevated access to critical data handling and transfer workflows. The high CVSS score of 7.7 reflects the severity of unrestricted privilege escalation in a widely-used enterprise automation platform.

Casky.ai's 301 mapped skills leverage Claude's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns underlying this vulnerability across MITRE ATT&CK's Initial Access (TA0001) and Privilege Escalation (TA0043) tactics. Practitioners using Casky would observe detection findings centered on suspicious input crafting attempts designed to bypass validation controls, followed by privilege escalation indicators such as unexpected permission grants, lateral movement from the MOVEit service account, or unauthorized access to protected file transfer queues. The platform's skill mappings enable security teams to correlate raw input anomalies with downstream privilege escalation signals, identifying exploitation attempts that might otherwise appear as isolated validation failures rather than coordinated attack chains.

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

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