diff --git a/app/Controller/AppController.php b/app/Controller/AppController.php
index 02774ef55..e80bc857f 100755
--- a/app/Controller/AppController.php
+++ b/app/Controller/AppController.php
@@ -165,10 +165,10 @@ class AppController extends Controller
         } else {
             $this->Auth->authenticate['Form']['userFields'] = $auth_user_fields;
         }
+        $versionArray = $this->{$this->modelClass}->checkMISPVersion();
         if (!empty($this->params['named']['disable_background_processing'])) {
             Configure::write('MISP.background_jobs', 0);
         }
-        $versionArray = $this->{$this->modelClass}->checkMISPVersion();
         $this->mispVersion = implode('.', array_values($versionArray));
         $this->Security->blackHoleCallback = 'blackHole';
         $this->_setupBaseurl();
@@ -395,8 +395,10 @@ class AppController extends Controller
         // instead of using checkAction(), like we normally do from controllers when trying to find out about a permission flag, we can use getActions()
         // getActions returns all the flags in a single SQL query
         if ($this->Auth->user()) {
+            $versionArray = $this->{$this->modelClass}->checkMISPVersion();
+            $this->mispVersionFull = implode('.', array_values($versionArray));
             $this->set('mispVersion', implode('.', array($versionArray['major'], $versionArray['minor'], 0)));
-            $this->set('mispVersionFull', $this->mispVersion);
+            $this->set('mispVersionFull', $this->mispVersionFull);
             $role = $this->getActions();
             $this->set('me', $this->Auth->user());
             $this->set('isAdmin', $role['perm_admin']);
diff --git a/app/Model/AppModel.php b/app/Model/AppModel.php
index 04e3557d0..de9a8be12 100644
--- a/app/Model/AppModel.php
+++ b/app/Model/AppModel.php
@@ -1545,6 +1545,7 @@ class AppModel extends Model
 
     public function checkMISPVersion()
     {
+        App::uses('Folder', 'Utility');
         $file = new File(ROOT . DS . 'VERSION.json', true);
         $version_array = json_decode($file->read(), true);
         $file->close();