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CVE-2025-43566 Medium · 6.8 EPSS 58.2%

ColdFusion | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22)

Adobe · ColdFusion

Summary

The Adobe ColdFusion component is affected by a path traversal flaw (CWE-22) that allows arbitrary file system reads. An attacker who already holds high privileges on the system can bypass security protections to read files without user interaction, with the scope changed.

Official description · CVE.org

ColdFusion versions 2025.1, 2023.13, 2021.19 and earlier are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security protections and gain unauthorized read access. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction and scope is changed.

Breakdown
24.6 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 13 May 2025. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No 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.

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