CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-11284

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Dec 01, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 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 has an Untrusted Data Deserialization vulnerability. This affects Update 4 and earlier versions for ColdFusion 2016, and Update 12 and earlier versions for ColdFusion 11.

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 11.0 (including) 11.0 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update1 (including) 11.0-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update10 (including) 11.0-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update11 (including) 11.0-update11 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update12 (including) 11.0-update12 (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 11.0-update8 (including) 11.0-update8 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 11.0-update9 (including) 11.0-update9 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016 (including) 2016 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016-update1 (including) 2016-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016-update2 (including) 2016-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016-update3 (including) 2016-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2016-update4 (including) 2016-update4 (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