CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1114

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: May 11, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Adobe ColdFusion 10 before Update 19, 11 before Update 8, and 2016 before Update 1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections library.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update1 (including) 10.0-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update10 (including) 10.0-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update11 (including) 10.0-update11 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update12 (including) 10.0-update12 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update13 (including) 10.0-update13 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update14 (including) 10.0-update14 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update15 (including) 10.0-update15 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update16 (including) 10.0-update16 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update17 (including) 10.0-update17 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update18 (including) 10.0-update18 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update2 (including) 10.0-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update3 (including) 10.0-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update4 (including) 10.0-update4 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update5 (including) 10.0-update5 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update6 (including) 10.0-update6 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update7 (including) 10.0-update7 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update8 (including) 10.0-update8 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 10.0-update9 (including) 10.0-update9 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update1 (including) 11.0-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update2 (including) 11.0-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update3 (including) 11.0-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update4 (including) 11.0-update4 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update5 (including) 11.0-update5 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update6 (including) 11.0-update6 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update7 (including) 11.0-update7 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016 (including) 2016 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References