CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40698

Use of Inherently Dangerous Function

Published: Sep 07, 2023 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.4
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

ColdFusion version 2021 update 1 (and earlier) and versions 2018.10 (and earlier) are impacted by an Use of Inherently Dangerous Function vulnerability that can lead to a security feature bypass  . An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access and manipulate arbitrary data on the environment.

Weakness

The product calls a function that can never be guaranteed to work safely.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Coldfusion Adobe * 2018 (excluding)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018 (including) 2018 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update1 (including) 2018-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update10 (including) 2018-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update2 (including) 2018-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update3 (including) 2018-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update4 (including) 2018-update4 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update5 (including) 2018-update5 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update6 (including) 2018-update6 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update7 (including) 2018-update7 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update8 (including) 2018-update8 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update9 (including) 2018-update9 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021 (including) 2021 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References