Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on May 10, 2022

Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB22-22

Bulletin ID	Date Published	Priority
APSB22-22	May 10, 2022	3

Summary

Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions 2021 and 2018. These updates resolve an Important  vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  

Affected Versions

Product	Update number	Platform
ColdFusion 2018	Update 13 and earlier versions	All
ColdFusion 2021	Version 3 and earlier versions	All

Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installations to the newest versions:

Product	Updated Version	Platform	Priority rating	Availability
ColdFusion 2018	Update 14	All	3	Tech Note
ColdFusion 2021	Update 4	All	3	Tech Note

Note:

Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE to the latest version of the LTS releases for 1.8 and JDK 11. Applying the ColdFusion update without a corresponding JDK update will NOT secure the server. See the relevant Tech Notes for more details.

Adobe  also recommends customers apply the security configuration settings as outlined on the ColdFusion Security page as well as review the respective Lockdown guides.   

Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability Category	Vulnerability Impact	Severity	CVSS base score	CVSS vector	CVE Numbers
Cross-site Scripting (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)	Arbitrary code execution	Important	5.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	CVE-2022-28818

Acknowledgements

Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:

UB3RSiCK (ub3rsick) - CVE-2022-28818

ColdFusion JDK Requirement

COLDFUSION 2021 (version 2021.0.0.323925) and above

For Application Servers  

On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, "-Djdk.serialFilter= !org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**", in the respective startup file depending on the type of Application Server being used.  

For example:  

Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file  

WebLogic Application Server:  edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file  

WildFly/EAP Application Server:  edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file  

Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone installation.  

COLDFUSION 2018 HF1 and above  