CVE-2009-4648

Exp

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.

Published: 2010-02-19 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2009-4648 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.77%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2009-4648

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
33623 exploit_db edb 2010-02-10 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-4648

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-25 0.29% 0.77% +0.48%
2 2025-03-17 0.12% 0.29% +0.17%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.12% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-4648

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-4648

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-4648

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
accellion secure_file_transfer_appliance 7_0_135 cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_135:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
accellion secure_file_transfer_appliance 7_0_178 cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_178:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
accellion secure_file_transfer_appliance 7_0_189 cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_189:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
accellion secure_file_transfer_appliance 7_0_259 cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_259:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
accellion secure_file_transfer_appliance 7_0_296 cpe:2.3:h:accellion:secure_file_transfer_appliance:7_0_296:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-4648

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