CVE-2009-4648 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2009-4648

Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance before 8_0_105 does not properly...

Vulnerability Description

Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance before 8_0_105 does not properly restrict access to sensitive commands and arguments that run with extra sudo privileges, which allows local administrators to gain privileges via (1) arbitrary arguments in the --file_move action in /usr/local/bin/admin.pl, or a hard link attack in (2) chmod or (3) a certain cp command.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

secure file transfer appliance
Vulnerable Versions:
7_0_135, 7_0_178, 7_0_189, 7_0_259, 7_0_296

Timeline

Official Publish: February 19th, 2010
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.