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FKIE_CVE-2009-4648

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2010-02-19 17:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:14

Severity

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.portcullis-security.com/338.php	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38176	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56248
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.portcullis-security.com/338.php	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38176	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56248

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
accellion	secure_file_transfer_appliance	7_0_135
accellion	secure_file_transfer_appliance	7_0_178
accellion	secure_file_transfer_appliance	7_0_189
accellion	secure_file_transfer_appliance	7_0_259
accellion	secure_file_transfer_appliance	7_0_296

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CVE-2009-4648 (GCVE-0-2009-4648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-02-19 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:08

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38176	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.portcullis-security.com/338.php	x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2009-11-04 00:00

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CVE-2009-4648 (GCVE-0-2009-4648)

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