Vulnerability report

Exploited in the wild Confirmed confidence In CISA KEV

CVE-2024-39717

Director

Versa / Director · 21.2.2

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Severity
CVSS 6.6 · Medium
Confidence
Confirmed
Exploit status
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
4.0%
First observed
—
Last observed
—

Decision summary

What security teams need to know first

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What it is

CVE-2024-39717 is a vulnerability affecting Versa Director. 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...

Is it exploited?

Yes. Previdian tracks this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability. Confidence is confirmed. Listed in CISA KEV.

Who is affected?

Versa / Director 21.2.2.

What should we do?

Prioritize remediation. Validate affected assets and apply vendor fixes on an accelerated timeline.

Overview

The Versa Director GUI provides an option to customize the look and feel of the user interface

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.

versa-networks Affected
versa_director
21.2.2 Before 21.2.3_2024-06-21 22.1.1 Before 22.1.2_2024-06-21 Before 22.1.3_2024-06-21
Versa Affected
Director
Through 21.2.2 Before 21.2.3 before 2024-06-21 Through 22.1.1 Through 22.1.2 before 2024-06-21 Through 22.1.3 before 2024-06-21
Published
22 Aug 2024
Exploitation Reported
23 Aug 2024
Attack vector
Remote
Complexity
High
Privileges
High
User interaction
None

Tags

cisa nessus_scanner

CVE References

Exploitation evidence

Why Previdian marks this CVE as exploited

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Exploited in the wild

CISA

Recorded 23 Aug 2024

A trusted third party reported exploitation.

Known exploited vulnerability sources

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Source Added
CISA First 2024-08-23 00:00 UTC

Detection

Operational artifacts and observed signals

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Observed signals

Request targets
User-Agents
Callback hosts
0
0
0

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Virtual patch status

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Scanner Artifacts

Scanner and exploit-framework references linked to this CVE.

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/207794 02 Jun 2025

Risk and context

Severity, weaknesses, and research context

CVSS v3.0

6.6 Medium

Potential damage if exploited. Separate from whether attackers are using it.

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

4.0%

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Previdian's warning comes from evidence, not this score.

Weaknesses

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type CWE-434

Timeline

From disclosure to observed exploitation

  1. 09:26 UTC

    Nessus plugin available

    Scanner coverage available

  2. 00:00 UTC

    Added to CISA KEV

    Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

  3. 18:47 UTC

    CVE published

    Vulnerability disclosed publicly

  4. 01:04 UTC

    CVE ID reserved

    Identifier reserved by the CNA

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Sample API response 
{
  "cve_id": "CVE-2024-39717",
  "confidence": "Confirmed",
  "cvss_score": 6.6,
  "cvss_estimated": false,
  "epss_score": 0.04006,
  "exploit_status": {
    "exploited_in_the_wild": true,
    "active_exploitation_observed": false
  },
  "sensor_telemetry": { "attempts": 0, "sensors": 0 }
}