CVE-2025-54309
9.8, critical Known exploitedCrushFTP Unprotected Alternate Channel Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 95% higher than 99.8% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 18 Jul 2025a year ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 22 Jul 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 12 Aug 2025, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
CrushFTP 10 before 10.8.5 and 11 before 11.3.4_23, when the DMZ proxy feature is not used, mishandles AS2 validation and consequently allows remote attackers to obtain admin access via HTTPS, as exploited in the wild in July 2025.
Details
- Vendor
- CrushFTP
- Product
- CrushFTP
- Weakness
- CWE-420 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 6
Advisories 4
- bleepingcomputer.com /news/security/crushftp-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-to-gain-admin-access-on-servers/ (opens in a new tab)
- crushftp.com /crush11wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CompromiseJuly2025 (opens in a new tab)
- vicarius.io /vsociety/posts/cve-2025-54309-detect-crushftp-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)
- vicarius.io /vsociety/posts/cve-2025-54309-mitigate-crushftp-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other CrushFTP CVEs
Every CrushFTP CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2025-31161 CrushFTP Authentication Bypass Vulnerability KEV EPSS 100% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2024-4040 CrushFTP VFS Sandbox Escape Vulnerability KEV EPSS 100% 10, critical
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.