CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-49546

Improper Access Control

Published: Jul 08, 2025 | Modified: Jul 15, 2025
CVSS 3.x
2.4
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

ColdFusion versions 2025.2, 2023.14, 2021.20 and earlier are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could lead to a partial application denial-of-service. A high-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to partially disrupt the availability of the application. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction and scope is unchanged. The vulnerable component is restricted to internal IP addresses.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Coldfusion Adobe 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update1 (including) 2021-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update10 (including) 2021-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update11 (including) 2021-update11 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update12 (including) 2021-update12 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update13 (including) 2021-update13 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update14 (including) 2021-update14 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update15 (including) 2021-update15 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update16 (including) 2021-update16 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update17 (including) 2021-update17 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update18 (including) 2021-update18 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update19 (including) 2021-update19 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update2 (including) 2021-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update20 (including) 2021-update20 (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)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update6 (including) 2021-update6 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update7 (including) 2021-update7 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update8 (including) 2021-update8 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2021-update9 (including) 2021-update9 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update1 (including) 2023-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update10 (including) 2023-update10 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update11 (including) 2023-update11 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update12 (including) 2023-update12 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update13 (including) 2023-update13 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update14 (including) 2023-update14 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update2 (including) 2023-update2 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update3 (including) 2023-update3 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update4 (including) 2023-update4 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update5 (including) 2023-update5 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update6 (including) 2023-update6 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update7 (including) 2023-update7 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update8 (including) 2023-update8 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2023-update9 (including) 2023-update9 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2025 (including) 2025 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2025-update1 (including) 2025-update1 (including)
Coldfusion Adobe 2025-update2 (including) 2025-update2 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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