CVE-2015-2857

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 84.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Accellion File Transfer Appliance before FTA_9_11_210 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the oauth_token parameter.

Affected products

Accellion File Transfer Appliance: through 9_11_200

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132665/Accellion-FTA-getStatus-verify_oauth_token-Command-Execution.html
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/http/accellion_fta_getstatus_oauth
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/07/10/r7-2015-08-accellion-file-transfer-appliance-vulnerabilities-cve-2015-2856-cve-2015-2857
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37597/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132665/Accellion-FTA-getStatus-verify_oauth_token-Command-Execution.html
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/linux/http/accellion_fta_getstatus_oauth
https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/07/10/r7-2015-08-accellion-file-transfer-appliance-vulnerabilities-cve-2015-2856-cve-2015-2857
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37597/

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