Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018u17 (and earlier), 2021u7 (and earlier) and 2023u1 (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 18, 2021.x update 8, or 2023.x update 2. It is, therefore, affected by a code execution vulnerability as referenced in the APSB23-41 advisory.
Due to deserialization of untrusted data, a remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause arbitrary code execution on an affected server.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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
178416	Adobe ColdFusion < 2018.x < 2018u18 / 2021.x < 2021u8 / 2023.x < 2023u2 Code Execution (APSB23-41)	Nessus	Windows	Local	critical

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CVE-2023-38203

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