CVE-2024-39717 — Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload Vulnerability

CVE-2024-39717 (Versa Director) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2024-08-23. The Versa Director GUI contains an unrestricted upload of file with dangerous type vulnerability that allows… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2024-39717 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2024-08-23. The Versa Director GUI contains an unrestricted upload of file with dangerous type vulnerability that allows administrators with Provider-Data-Center-Admin or Provider-Data-Center-System-Admin privileges to customize the user interface. The “Change Favicon” (Favorite Icon) enables the upload of a .png file, which can be exploited to upload a malicious file with a .png extension disguised as an image.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
Versa
Affected product
Director
Added to CISA KEV
2024-08-23
US federal remediation due date
2024-09-13
Ransomware association
Unknown
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-434

Remediation: the required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

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Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.