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CVE-2010-5290

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The authentication process in Adobe ColdFusion before 10 does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain administrative privileges by leveraging read access to the configuration file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2861.

Affected products

• Adobe ColdFusion: through 9.0.2; 9.0, 9.0.1

References

• http://osvdb.org/97553
• http://qualys.immunityinc.com/home/exploitpack/CANVAS/CF_directory_traversal
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/coldfusion-directory-traversal-faq-cve-2010-2861/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87740
• http://osvdb.org/97553
• http://qualys.immunityinc.com/home/exploitpack/CANVAS/CF_directory_traversal
• http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/coldfusion-directory-traversal-faq-cve-2010-2861/
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87740

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