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CVE-2024-39717

Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload Vulnerability

  • Medium 6.6
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 23 Aug 2024

Description

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.

Key facts

Published
22 Aug 2024
Last changed
21 Oct 2025
Assigned by
hackerone
KEV added
23 Aug 2024
KEV fix due
13 Sep 2024
EPSS
3.987% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 90.671% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: no; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 6.6CVSS 3.0, Mediumfrom the CNA (hackerone)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What to do

  • Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

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No separately sourced impact summary is available on this page yet. Consult the description, version data and dated exploitation evidence.

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
VersaDirector
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 21.2.2 up to and including 21.2.2 (affected)
  • 21.2.3 before 2024-06-21 up to but excluding 21.2.3 before 2024-06-21 (affected)
  • 22.1.1 up to and including 22.1.1 (affected)
  • 22.1.2 before 2024-06-21 up to and including 22.1.2 before 2024-06-21 (affected)
  • 22.1.3 before 2024-06-21 up to and including 22.1.3 before 2024-06-21 (affected)

Timeline

  1. 22 Aug 2024 Published
  2. 23 Aug 2024 CVE-2024-39717 added to CISA KEV
  3. 23 Aug 2024 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

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