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

High severity, CVSS 7.2. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2024-08-23. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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-Networks Versa Director: version 21.2.2 only; version 21.2.3 only; version 22.1.1 only; version 22.1.2 only; version 22.1.3 only

Published 2024-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.