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Hackers Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability to Breach Federal Agency Servers

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Dissent

The Hacker News reports:

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a high-severity Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability by unidentified threat actors to gain initial access to government servers.

“The vulnerability in ColdFusion (CVE-2023-26360) presents as an improper access control issue and exploitation of this CVE can result in arbitrary code execution,” CISA said, adding an unnamed federal agency was targeted between June and July 2023.

The shortcoming affects ColdFusion 2018 (Update 15 and earlier versions) and ColdFusion 2021 (Update 5 and earlier versions). It has been addressed in versions Update 16 and Update 6, released on March 14, 2023, respectively.

Read more at The Hacker News.

Related:

The full advisory can be found at https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-339a.  It is also available in  .pdf version.

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