Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB24-107

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB24-107

December 23, 2024

1

Summary

Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions 2023 and 2021. These updates resolve a critical vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read.

Adobe is aware that  CVE-2024-53961 has a known proof-of-concept that could cause an arbitrary file system read.

Affected Versions

Product

Update number

Platform

ColdFusion 2023

Update 11 and earlier versions
  

All

ColdFusion 2021

Update 17 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 2023

Update 12

All

1

ColdFusion 2021

Update 18

All

1

Note:

See the updated serial filter documentation for more details on protection against insecure Wddx deserialization attacks https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-serialfilter-file.html

Vulnerability Details

Vulnerability Category

Vulnerability Impact

Severity

CVSS base score 

CVE Numbers

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22)

Arbitrary file system read

Critical

7.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVE-2024-53961

Acknowledgements:

Adobe would like to thank the following researchers for reporting this issue and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:   

  • ma4ter - CVE-2024-53961

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://hackerone.com/adobe

Note:

Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE LTS version to the latest update release as a secure practice. The ColdFusion downloads page is regularly updated to include the latest Java installers for the JDK version your installation supports as per the matrices below. 

For instructions on how to use an external JDK, view Change ColdFusion JVM

Adobe also recommends applying the security configuration settings included in the ColdFusion Security documentation as well as review the respective Lockdown guides.    

ColdFusion JDK Requirement

COLDFUSION 2023 (version 2023.0.0.330468) and above
For Application Servers

On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, “-Djdk.serialFilter= !org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**;!org.jgroups.**;!com.sun.rowset.**" 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 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.**;!org.jgroups.**;!com.sun.rowset.**"

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.   


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html , or email PSIRT@adobe.com 

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