Versa Director up to 22.1.4 argument injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Versa Director up to 22.1.4. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes argument injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-24291. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Versa Director up to 22.1.4. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Versa Director SD-WAN orchestration platform provides functionality to upload various types of files. However, the Java code handling file uploads contains an argument injection vulnerability. By appending additional arguments to the file name, an attacker can bypass MIME type validation, allowing the upload of arbitrary file types. This flaw can be exploited to place a malicious file on disk. Versa Networks is not aware of any reported instance where this vulnerability was exploited. Proof of concept for this vulnerability has been disclosed by third party security researchers. There are no workarounds to disable the GUI option. Versa recommends that Director be upgraded to one of the remediated software versions.

The advisory is shared at security-portal.versa-networks.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-24291 since 01/17/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at support.versa-networks.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-18667). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Versa

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• Director

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• 21.2.0
• 21.2.1
• 21.2.2
• 21.2.3
• 22.1.0
• 22.1.1
• 22.1.2
• 22.1.3
• 22.1.4

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