CVE-2024-39717 on CISA KEV

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 Favic

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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…

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

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

03Notes & references

• versa-networks.com — https://versa-networks.com/blog/versa-security-bulletin-update-on-cve-2024-39717…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Versa	Director	21.2.2, 21.2.3 before 2024-06-21, 22.1.1, 22.1.2 before 2024-06-21, 22.1.3 before 2024-06-21

06Detection

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