CVE-2009-3960 — Blazeds
MEDIUMCVE-2009-3960 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in adobe blazeds. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-07) and has been used in ransomware campaigns — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
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…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-07 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-09-07.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2009-3960.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2009-3960 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
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
blazedsadobecoldfusionadobeflex data servicesadobelivecycleadobelivecycle data servicesadobeResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Adobe (Multiple Products) - XML External Entity / XML Injection
by Roberto Suggi Liverani · Feb 22, 2010
Adobe (Multiple Products) - XML Injection File Content Disclosure
by Tess Sluyter · Apr 7, 2017
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every adobe blazeds deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2009-3960 yet — track the adobe blazeds advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2009-3960 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.