CVE-2022-38421

Adobe ColdFusion Application Server Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.2
EPSS
EPSS 79.56 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
adobe
NVD status
Modified

Description

Adobe ColdFusion versions Update 14 (and earlier) and Update 4 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction, but does require administrator privileges.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Adobe · ColdFusionaffected unspecified ≤ CF2021U4 ; affected unspecified ≤ CF2018u14 ; affected unspecified ≤ None

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