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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2023.3907
APSB23-40 : Security update available for Adobe ColdFusion
12 July 2023
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Adobe ColdFusion
Publisher: Adobe
Operating System: Windows
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2023-29301 CVE-2023-29300 CVE-2023-29298
Original Bulletin:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb23-40.html
Comment: CVSS (Max): 9.8 CVE-2023-29300 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVSS Source: Adobe
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB23-40
Bulletin ID Date Published Priority
APSB23-40 July 11, 2023 1
Summary
Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions 2023, 2021 and
2018. These updates resolve critical and important vulnerabilities that could
lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass
Affected Versions
Product Update number Platform
ColdFusion 2018 Update 16 and earlier versions All
ColdFusion 2021 Update 6 and earlier versions All
ColdFusion 2023 GA Release (2023.0.0.330468) All
Solution
Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and
recommends users update their installations to the newest versions:
Product Updated Version Platform Priority rating Availability
ColdFusion 2018 Update 17 All 1 Tech Note
ColdFusion 2021 Update 7 All 1 Tech Note
ColdFusion 2023 Update 1 All 1 Tech Note
Note:
Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE to the latest version of the
LTS releases for JDK 17 where applicable. Applying the ColdFusion update
without a corresponding JDK update will NOT secure the server. See the relevant
Tech Notes for more details.
Adobe also recommends customers apply the security configuration settings as
outlined on the ColdFusion Security page as well as review the respective
Lockdown guides.
o ColdFusion 2018 Auto-Lockdown Guide
o ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide
o ColdFusion 2023 Lockdown Guide
Vulnerability Details
Vulnerability Vulnerability CVSS
Category Impact Severity base CVSS vector CVE Numbers
score
Security CVSS:3.1/AV:N
Improper Access feature Critical 7.5 /AC:L/PR:N/ CVE-2023-29298
Control ( CWE-284 ) bypass UI:N/S:U/C:H/
I:N/A:N
Deserialization of Arbitrary CVSS:3.1/AV:N
Untrusted Data ( code Critical 9.8 /AC:L/PR:N/ CVE-2023-29300
CWE-502 ) execution UI:N/S:U/C:H/
I:H/A:H
Improper Restriction Security CVSS:3.1/AV:N
of Excessive feature Important 5.9 /AC:H/PR:N/ CVE-2023-29301
Authentication bypass UI:N/S:U/C:H/
Attempts ( CWE-307 ) I:N/A:N
Acknowledgements
Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting the relevant issues and
for working with Adobe to help protect our customers :
o Stephen Fewer – CVE-2023-29298
o Nicolas Zilio (CrowdStrike) – CVE-2023-29300
o Brian Reilly – CVE-2023-29301
NOTE: Adobe has a private, invite-only, bug bounty program with HackerOne. If
you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher,
please fill out this form for next steps.
ColdFusion JDK Requirement
COLDFUSION 2023 (version 2023.0.0.330468) and above
For Application Servers
On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, “-Djdk.serialFilter= !
org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**; !
org.jgroups.**”, in the respective startup file depending on the type of
Application Server being used.
For example:
Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file
WebLogic Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file
WildFly/EAP Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file
Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone
installation.
COLDFUSION 2021 (version 2021.0.0.323925) and above
For Application Servers
On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, “-Djdk.serialFilter= !
org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**; !
org.jgroups.**”, in the respective startup file depending on the type of
Application Server being used.
For example:
Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file
WebLogic Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file
WildFly/EAP Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file
Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone
installation.
COLDFUSION 2018 HF1 and above
For Application Servers
On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, “-Djdk.serialFilter= !
org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**; !
org.jgroups.**”, in the respective startup file depending on the type of
Application Server being used.
For example:
Apache Tomcat Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘Catalina.bat/sh’ file
WebLogic Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the ‘startWeblogic.cmd’ file
WildFly/EAP Application Server: edit JAVA_OPTS in the ‘standalone.conf’ file
Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone
installation.
For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html , or email
[email protected]
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