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CVE-2024-39717: Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2024-08-23
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

The Versa Director GUI provides an option to customize the look and feel of the user interface. This option is only available for a user logged with Provider-Data-Center-Admin or Provider-Data-Center-System-Admin. (Tenant level users do not have this privilege). The “Change Favicon” (Favorite Icon) option can be mis-used to upload a malicious file ending with .png extension to masquerade as image file. This is possible only after a user with Provider-Data-Center-Admin or Provider-Data-Center-System-Admin has successfully authenticated and logged in.

Affected products

• Versa Director: 21.2.2, 21.2.3, 22.1.1, 22.1.2, 22.1.3

References

• https://versa-networks.com/blog/versa-security-bulletin-update-on-cve-2024-39717-versa-director-dangerous-file-type-upload-vulnerability/
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-39717

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