Adobe ColdFusion Application Server Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Adobe · ColdFusion
The flaw is a path traversal weakness (improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory) in Adobe ColdFusion, affecting Update 14 and earlier and Update 4 and earlier. An attacker who exploits it can achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user, without requiring user interaction, but only if they already hold administrator privileges.
Adobe ColdFusion versions Update 14 (and earlier) and Update 4 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction, but does require administrator privileges.
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 0/15
Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
Disclosed on 14 Oct 2022. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
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No techniques linkedNo ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.
What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 1 community threat pulse (AlienVault OTX)
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