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CVE-2017-8793

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-346

Description

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. By sending a POST request to home/seos/courier/web/wmProgressstat.html.php with an attacker domain in the acallow parameter, the device will respond with an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header allowing the attacker to have site access with a bypass of the Same Origin Policy.

Affected products

• Accellion File Transfer Appliance: through 9_12_40

References

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

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