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CVE-2023-26361: Adobe Security Bulletin
Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018 Update 15 (and earlier) and 2021 Update 5 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’) vulnerability that could result in Arbitrary file system read. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction, but does require administrator privileges.
Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB23-25
Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions 2021 and 2018. These updates resolve critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and memory leak.
Adobe is aware that CVE-2023-26360 has been exploited in the wild in very limited attacks targeting Adobe ColdFusion.
Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installations to the newest versions:
Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE to the latest version of the LTS releases for JDK 11. Applying the ColdFusion update without a corresponding JDK update will NOT secure the server. See the relevant Tech Notes for more details.
Adobe also recommends customers apply the security configuration settings as outlined on the ColdFusion Security page as well as review the respective Lockdown guides.
- ColdFusion 2018 Auto-Lockdown guide
- ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide
Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
Patrick Vares (ELS-PHI) - CVE-2023-26359
Charlie Arehart and Pete Freitag - CVE-2023-26360
Dusan Stevanovic of Trend Micro - CVE-2023-26361
ColdFusion JDK Requirement
COLDFUSION 2021 (version 2021.0.0.323925) and above
For Application Servers
On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, "-Djdk.serialFilter= !org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**", in the respective startup file depending on the type of Application Server being used.
For example:
Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file
WebLogic Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file
WildFly/EAP Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file
Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone installation.
COLDFUSION 2018 HF1 and above
For Application Servers
On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, "-Djdk.serialFilter= !org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**", in the respective startup file depending on the type of Application Server being used.
For example:
Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file
WebLogic Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file
WildFly/EAP Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file
Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone installation.
March 14, 2023: Vulnerability Impact revised for CVE-2023-26360
For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html , or email [email protected]
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