ColdFusion Exploit Used to Access Federal Agency

Unknown attackers exploited a known access control vulnerability in two Adobe ColdFusion application servers at a federal government agency in June, gaining access to the environment, uploading a webshell, and adding malicious code to the servers.

There were two separate incidents at the unnamed agency in June, and according to a new advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency the attacks may be the work of one group or two separate groups. The intrusions appeared to be focused on reconnaissance and mapping out the network infrastructure, and CISA said there is no evidence that data was exfiltrated during the intrusions. In both instances, the attackers exploited CVE-2023-26360 in ColdFusion, a bug that Adobe released a fix for in March.

“In both…