THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-15965
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-15965

Coldfusion vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
25.9%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Adobe ColdFusion versions July 12 release (2018.0.0.310739), Update 6 and earlier, and Update 14 and earlier have a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Coldfusion
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2018-09-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 25.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-15965

  • Confirm whether Adobe Coldfusion is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-15965.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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