CVE-2013-0631 — Coldfusion
HIGHCVE-2013-0631 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in adobe coldfusion. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-07) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, and 9.0.2 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2013.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-07. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-09-07.
- 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-2013-0631.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2013-0631 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 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, and 9.0.2 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2013.
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.
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-2013-0631 yet — track the adobe coldfusion 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-2013-0631 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.