CVE-2024-39717 is a vulnerability in the Versa Director GUI customization feature that allows a successfully authenticated high-privilege administrator to abuse the favicon upload function to submit a malicious file disguised with a .png extension. The exposed functionality is available to Provider-Data-Center-Admin and Provider-Data-Center-System-Admin accounts. Available reporting indicates the flaw was exploited on Versa Director servers for initial access and code execution, and has also been described as enabling arbitrary file read and deletion. The issue is therefore associated with unsafe handling of uploaded files in a privileged administrative workflow, allowing attacker-supplied content to masquerade as an image and be leveraged for server-side compromise.
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A vulnerability (unspecified in the content) affecting Versa Director GUI that is listed as exploited by the threat actor UNC3886/Volt Typhoon.
An arbitrary file upload and execution vulnerability in Versa Networks Director.
A Versa Director server vulnerability used for initial access and code execution.
A vulnerability in Versa Director servers exploited by Volt Typhoon for credential interception and code injection.
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