Actively exploited · Published Jan 17, 2013 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2013-0632

Critical 9.8 Exploited

In plain English

A critical-severity incorrect default permissions in ColdFusion from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 93.1% (higher than 99.8% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)93.1%top 0.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Official description

administrator.cfc in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 10 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and possibly execute arbitrary code by logging in to the RDS component using the default empty password and leveraging this session to access the administrative web interface, as exploited in the wild in January 2013.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-276 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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