THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-2352
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-2352

File Transfer Appliance vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
5.4%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
The Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) before FTA_9_12_40 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging the YUM_CLIENT restricted-user role.
Affected vendor
Accellion
Affected product
File Transfer Appliance
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2016-05-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-2352

  • Confirm whether Accellion File Transfer Appliance is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-2352.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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