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CVE-2015-2857

85
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2857 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Accellion File Transfer Appliance versions prior to FTA_9_11_210. Attackers can exploit this by injecting shell metacharacters into the oauth_token parameter. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While not on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit, and it has garnered some community discussion, indicating potential for active exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9_11_200CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:accellion:file_transfer_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
84.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Accellion FTA getStatus verify_oauth_token Command Execution · Jul 10, 2015
ExploitDB: EDB-37597 · Jul 13, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8418 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/132665/Accellion-FTA-getStatus-verify_oauth_token-Command-Execution.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
community.rapid7.com / community/metasploit/blog/2015/07/10/r7-2015-08-accellion-file-transfer-appliance-vulnerabilities-cve-2015-2856-cve-2015-2857
ExploitThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/37597
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
rapid7.com / db/modules/exploit/linux/http/accellion_fta_getstatus_oauth
ExploitThird Party Advisory