CVE-2017-8794: Accellion File Transfer Appliance

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 9_12_40

Published 2017-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.