THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2025-54261
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2025-54261

Coldfusion vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
19.9%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
ColdFusion versions 2025.3, 2023.15, 2021.21 and earlier are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution by an attacker. The victim must have optional configurations enabled. Scope is changed.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Coldfusion
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2025-09-09

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 19.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2025-54261

  • Confirm whether Adobe Coldfusion is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2025-54261.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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