CVE-2009-4648: Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance before 8_0_105 does not properly restrict access to sensitive commands and arguments that run with extra sudo privileges, which allows local administrators to gain privileges via (1) arbitrary arguments in the --file_move action in /usr/local/bin/admin.pl, or a hard link attack in (2) chmod or (3) a certain cp command.

Affected products

• Accellion Secure File Transfer Appliance: version 7_0_135 only; version 7_0_178 only; version 7_0_189 only; version 7_0_259 only; version 7_0_296 only

Published 2010-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.