FKIE_CVE-2016-2353

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-07 14:59 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:30
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) before FTA_9_12_40 allows local users to add an SSH key to an arbitrary group, and consequently gain privileges, via unspecified vectors.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/Exploit
cret@cert.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/505560Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/505560Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
accellion file_transfer_appliance *
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  "lastModified": "2026-05-06T22:30:45.220",
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