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CVE-2009-4648

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.82%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2010-02-19 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2009-4648
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.82%

Original NVD 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.