What is CVE-2017-8794?

CVE-2017-8794 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Accellion File_transfer_appliance, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2017-05-05.

How severe is CVE-2017-8794?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.

SSRF in Accellion File_transfer_appliance

CVE-2017-8794

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. Because a regular expression (intended to match local https URLs) lacks an initial ^ character, courier/web/1000@/wmProgressval.html allows SSRF attacks with a file:///e…

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.003 (55.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Accellion File_transfer_appliance
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8794?: CVE-2017-8794 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Accellion File_transfer_appliance, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2017-05-05.
How severe is CVE-2017-8794?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.