CVE-2010-5290

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The CVSS score reflects previously published information indicating successful exploitation allows SYSTEM access on certain operating systems.

The authentication process in Adobe ColdFusion before 10 does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain administrative privileges by leveraging read access to the configuration file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2861.

The CVSS score reflects previously published information indicating successful exploitation allows SYSTEM access on certain operating systems.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-09-20 16:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Adobe ColdFusion 9.0

9.0

Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1

9.0.1

Adobe ColdFusion

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