Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018u18 (and earlier), 2021u8 (and earlier) and 2023u2 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access the administration CFM and CFC endpoints. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Adobe ColdFusion prior to versions 2018 Update 19, 2021 Update 9 and 2023 Update 3, suffer from an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access the administration CFM and CFC endpoints.

The version of Adobe ColdFusion installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2018.x update 19, 2021.x update 9, or 2023.x update 3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the APSB23-47 advisory.

  - Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) potentially leading to Arbitrary code execution     (CVE-2023-38204)

  - Improper Access Control (CWE-284) potentially leading to Security feature bypass (CVE-2023-38205,     CVE-2023-38206)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
114043	Adobe ColdFusion Improper Access Control	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
178703	Adobe ColdFusion < 2018.x < 2018u19 / 2021.x < 2021u9 / 2023.x < 2023u3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB23-47)	Nessus	Windows	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-38205

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical