{"id":239031,"date":"2026-05-04T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/progress-patches-critical-moveit-automation-bug-enabling-authentication-bypass\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:09","slug":"progress-patches-critical-moveit-automation-bug-enabling-authentication-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/progress-patches-critical-moveit-automation-bug-enabling-authentication-bypass\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Patches Critical MOVEit Automation Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/progress-patches-critical-moveit.html\">Progress Patches Critical MOVEit Automation Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/progress-patches-critical-moveit.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/progress-patches-critical-moveit.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 12:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">May 04, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Enterprise Software<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Progress Software has released updates to address two security flaws in MOVEit Automation, including a critical bug that could result in an authentication bypass.<\/p>\n<p>MOVEit Automation (formerly Central) is a secure, server-based managed file transfer (MFT) solution used to schedule and automate file movement workflows in enterprise environments without requiring any custom scripts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-4670 (CVSS score: 9.8), an authentication bypass vulnerability, and CVE-2026-5174 (CVSS score: 7.7), an improper input validation vulnerability that could allow privilege escalation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Critical and high vulnerabilities in MOVEit Automation may allow authentication bypass and privilege escalation through the service backend command port interfaces,&#8221; Progress Software said in an advisory. &#8220;Exploitation may lead to unauthorized access, administrative control, and data exposure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shortcomings affect the following versions &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MOVEit Automation\n<\/li>\n<li>MOVEit Automation\n<\/li>\n<li>MOVEit Automation\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Airbus SecLab researchers Ana\u00efs Gantet, Delphine Gourdou, Quentin Liddell, and Matteo Ricordeau have been credited with discovering and reporting the two vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that resolve the issues.<\/p>\n<p>While Progress makes no mention of the flaws being exploited in the wild, it&#8217;s essential that users apply the fixes as soon as possible for optimal protection, particularly given that prior flaws in MOVEit Transfer have been exploited by ransomware gangs like Cl0p.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/progress-patches-critical-moveit.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress Patches Critical MOVEit Automation Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/progress-patches-critical-moveit.html Publish Date: 2026-05-04 12:34:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgTvgdRkcdOwctclhM5XBvKXGGFrqpNsd7pJsR6Qk9QfhVd52KaiNWtY6kbWYbxzweFJDx5-sXo5UmIGJZ2yKbiSqntFDcYS7aDV_hUlAuNtcFzIPf_MDdqWq9eeyzZwJXx9__K5ynAXHc-7kJ6i66ifjuGrFqfLdn4-yDTvmL1oSZ-kVX2V9eoTq-xdiKa\/s1600\/moveit.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-239031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239033,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239031\/revisions\/239033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}