CVE-2021-40699

ColdFusion CFIDE Improper Access Control Leads To Privilege Escalation

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.4
EPSS
EPSS 0.51 % · percentile 43 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

ColdFusion version 2021 update 1 (and earlier) and versions 2018.10 (and earlier) are impacted by an improper access control vulnerability when checking permissions in the CFIDE path. An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access and manipulate arbitrary data on the environment.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Ladobe
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · ColdFusionaffected 0 ≤ 2018.11

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD