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CVE-2017-8794

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

An issue was discovered on Accellion FTA devices before FTA_9_12_180. Because a regular expression (intended to match local https URLs) lacks an initial ^ character, courier/web/1000@/wmProgressval.html allows SSRF attacks with a file:///etc/passwd#https:// URL pattern.

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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