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CVE-2016-4264

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 69.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The Office Open XML (OOXML) feature in Adobe ColdFusion 10 before Update 21 and 11 before Update 10 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or send TCP requests to intranet servers via a crafted OOXML spreadsheet containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Adobe ColdFusion: through 10.0; through 11.0

References

• http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Adobe-ColdFusion-11-XXE-Exploit-CVE-2016-4264.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539374/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92684
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036708
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb16-30.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40346/
• http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Adobe-ColdFusion-11-XXE-Exploit-CVE-2016-4264.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539374/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92684
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036708
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb16-30.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40346/

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