CVE-2009-4648

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-4648
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-02-19 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionAccellion 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance 7_0_135 All All All
Hardware Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance 7_0_178 All All All
Hardware Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance 7_0_189 All All All
Hardware Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance 7_0_259 All All All
Hardware Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance 7_0_296 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory 09-009 - Portcullis af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.portcullis-security.com Exploit
Accellion File Transfer Appliance Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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