Actively exploited · Published Aug 11, 2010 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2010-2861

High 7.5 Exploited Ransomware

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in ColdFusion from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 25, 2022). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 99.7% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)99.7%top 0.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 25, 2022

Attack tooling3Metasploit, Nuclei, Public PoC

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022.

Official description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the administrator console in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the locale parameter to (1) CFIDE/administrator/settings/mappings.cfm, (2) logging/settings.cfm, (3) datasources/index.cfm, (4) j2eepackaging/editarchive.cfm, and (5) enter.cfm in CFIDE/administrator/.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/coldfusion-directory-traversal-faq-cve-2010-2861/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-07 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-18.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
8137 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON
8148 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2861 government-resource