CVE-2024-20767 — Coldfusion
HIGHCVE-2024-20767 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.4) CWE-284 vulnerability in adobe coldfusion. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-12-16) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
ColdFusion versions 2023.6, 2021.12 and earlier are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in arbitrary file system read. An attacker could leverage…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-12-16. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-01-06.
- 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-2024-20767.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-20767 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
ColdFusion versions 2023.6, 2021.12 and earlier are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in arbitrary file system read. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access or modify restricted files. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. Exploitation of this issue requires the admin panel be exposed to the internet.
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 2023.6 - Remote File Read
by İbrahimsql · Jul 28, 2025
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-2024-20767 yet — track the adobe coldfusion advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-20767
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-20767 -u https://target- Template
- Adobe ColdFusion - Arbitrary File Read
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can read and write arbitrary files on the server, potentially leading to complete system compromise.
- Remediation
- Update Adobe ColdFusion to version 2023.7, 2021.13 or later depending on your version.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (iamnoooob, rootxharsh, pdresearch), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-20767 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.