CVE-2017-8794

critical

Published 2017-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

10.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2

6.4

VIR risk

10.0

Description

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. Because a regular expression (intended to match local https URLs) lacks an initial ^ character, courier/web/1000@/wmProgressval.html allows SSRF attacks with a file:///etc/passwd#https:// URL pattern.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

98%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
accellion	file_transfer_appliance	`{"endIncluding":"9_12_40"}`

References

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/32e2894fa29176f3f32cb2b2bb7c24cb
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/32e2894fa29176f3f32cb2b2bb7c24cb

CWEs

CWE-918

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.