CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-26359

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Mar 23, 2023 | Modified: Feb 13, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018 Update 15 (and earlier) and 2021 Update 5 (and earlier) are affected by a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

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 2018 (including) 2018 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update1 (including) 2018-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update10 (including) 2018-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update11 (including) 2018-update11 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update12 (including) 2018-update12 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update13 (including) 2018-update13 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update14 (including) 2018-update14 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2018-update15 (including) 2018-update15 (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)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update1 (including) 2021-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update2 (including) 2021-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update3 (including) 2021-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update4 (including) 2021-update4 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update5 (including) 2021-update5 (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.

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