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CVE-2009-4648

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2010-02-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References