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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 19, 2010· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2009-4648

CVE-2009-4648

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • Accellion/File Transfer Appliance6 versions
    cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_135:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
    • cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_135:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_178:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_189:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_259:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_296:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: < 8_0_105

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