CVE-2016-2353

CVE-2016-2353 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) versions prior to FTA_9_12_40. A local attacker can exploit this flaw by adding an SSH key to an arbitrary group, thereby gaining elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, but leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability received some community discussion and media coverage, including an article from SecurityWeek.