CVE-2016-2352 describes a critical vulnerability in the Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) versions prior to FTA_9_12_40, allowing remote authenticated users with the YUM_CLIENT restricted-user role to execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, notably being patched after flaws were discovered during a Facebook hack.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9_11_210CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:accellion:file_transfer_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.