CVE-2010-2861: Adobe ColdFusion Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-25
EPSS: 99.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-11 · updated 2026-10-02
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the administrator console in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the locale parameter to (1) CFIDE/administrator/settings/mappings.cfm, (2) logging/settings.cfm, (3) datasources/index.cfm, (4) j2eepackaging/editarchive.cfm, and (5) enter.cfm in CFIDE/administrator/.

Affected products

Adobe ColdFusion: through 9.0.1

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8137
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8148
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-18.html
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/coldfusion-directory-traversal-faq-cve-2010-2861/
http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-07
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8137
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8148
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-18.html
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/coldfusion-directory-traversal-faq-cve-2010-2861/
http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-07
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2861

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