CVE-2024-39717
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.
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Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload Vulnerability
Versa Director
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
8/23/2024
https://versa-networks.com/blog/versa-security-bulletin-update-on-cve-2024-39717-versa-director-dangerous-file-type-upload-vulnerability/; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39717
Vulnerability Summary
CVSS v3 Score
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)
This vulnerability has a 5.36% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 90% of all scored CVEs.
CWE Classification
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