Number: AV19-212
Date: 25 September 2019
On 24 September 2019 Adobe released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting ColdFusion, including two critical vulnerabilities. The first critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-8073, could allow a remote actor to run arbitrary code on an affected system. The second critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-8074, is a path traversal vulnerability which could be exploited to bypass access controls and read arbitrary files.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Adobe Security Bulletin webpage and apply the necessary updates:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb19-47.html
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