Actively exploited · Published Feb 15, 2010 · Assigned by adobe
CVE-2009-3960
Medium 6.5 Exploited Ransomware
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in BlazeDS from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 7, 2022). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 90.1% (higher than 99.8% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Sep 7, 2022.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in BlazeDS 3.2 and earlier, as used in LiveCycle 8.0.1, 8.2.1, and 9.0, LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.1, 2.6.1, and 3.0, Flex Data Services 2.0.1, and ColdFusion 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.0.1, and 9.0, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors that are associated with a request, and related to injected tags and external entity references in XML documents.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- 38197 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- 1023584 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
- 62292 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
- 38543 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- 41855 exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-05.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-3960 government-resource