Coldfusion

CISA Calls on Network Defenders to Take Action Against Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Risks

CISA Calls on Network Defenders to Take Action Against Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Risks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an advisory concerning the exploitation of a vulnerability within select versions of the Adobe ColdFusion web application development platform that resulted in the compromise of two public-facing servers operated by a federal civilian executive branch agency. CISA said in its Dec. 5 cybersecurity advisory that each server was illegally accessed in two separate incidents in June, though it is not clear if the same malicious actors are behind both breaches. CISA documented the tactics, techniques and procedures that the malicious actors employed — including the implanting of software tools and the subsequent attempts to harvest user account credentials — and called on network defenders to monitor… Source link

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Unpatched Adobe ColdFusion bug led to double breach of US federal agency

Unpatched Adobe ColdFusion bug led to double breach of US federal agency

Threat actors abused a known Adobe ColdFusion bug to carry out two attacks on a U.S. federal agency’s systems two months after a mandated deadline to mitigate the vulnerability had passed. The incident was disclosed in a Dec. 5 cybersecurity advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) which did not name the federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency involved. The attacks — carried out by either one or two unknown threat groups — exploited CVE-2023-26360, an improper access control vulnerability that can result in arbitrary code execution. The bug affects versions of ColdFusion 2018 prior to Update 16 and ColdFusion 2021 prior to Update 6. It also affects two older versions of the web-application development software which are no longer… Source link

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