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CVE-2016-2352

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) before FTA_9_12_40 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging the YUM_CLIENT restricted-user role.

Affected products

• Accellion File Transfer Appliance: through 9_11_210

References

• http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/505560
• http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/505560

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