Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018u16 (and earlier), 2021u6 (and earlier) and 2023.0.0.330468 (and earlier) are affected by a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability that could result in Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Adobe ColdFusion prior to versions 2018 Update 19, 2021 Update 9 or 2023 Update 3, suffer from an Insecure Deserialization vulnerability through the `argumentCollection` parameter on `/CFIDE/adminapi/accessmanager.cfc` endpoint. By leveraging this vulnerability, a remote unauthenticated attacker could achieve a remote code execution on the target ColdFusion instance.

The version of Adobe ColdFusion installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 2018.x update 17, 2021.x update 7, or 2023.x update 1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the APSB23-40 advisory.

  - Improper Access Control (CWE-284) potentially leading to Security feature bypass (CVE-2023-29298)

  - Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) potentially leading to Arbitrary code execution     (CVE-2023-29300)

  - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CWE-307) potentially leading to Security     feature bypass (CVE-2023-29301)

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	Type	Severity
114042	Adobe ColdFusion Remote Code Execution	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Check Based	critical
178229	Adobe ColdFusion < 2018.x < 2018u17 / 2021.x < 2021u7 / 2023.x < 2023u1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB23-40)	Nessus	Windows	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-29300

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

high