CVE-2010-2861 — Coldfusion
CRITICALCVE-2010-2861 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Path Traversal vulnerability in adobe coldfusion. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-25) 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.
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…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-25 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-04-15.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2010-2861.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2010-2861 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
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
coldfusionadobeResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Adobe ColdFusion - Directory Traversal
by anonymous · Aug 14, 2010
Adobe ColdFusion - Directory Traversal (Metasploit)
by Metasploit · Mar 16, 2011
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every adobe coldfusion deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2010-2861 yet — track the adobe coldfusion advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2010-2861
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2010-2861 -u https://target- Template
- Adobe ColdFusion 8.0/8.0.1/9.0/9.0.1 LFI
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- This vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information and potential compromise of the affected system.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (pikpikcu), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2010-2861 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.