CVE-2017-8793

HIGH

Accellion File Transfer Appliance < 9_12_40 - Origin Validation Error

Title source: rule

Description

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. By sending a POST request to home/seos/courier/web/wmProgressstat.html.php with an attacker domain in the acallow parameter, the device will respond with an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header allowing the attacker to have site access with a bypass of the Same Origin Policy.

References (1)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/32e2894fa29176f3f32cb2b2bb7c24cb

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 32.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-346

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

accellion/file_transfer_appliance < 9_12_40

Timeline

Published May 05, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026