SB2018041018 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion
Published: April 10, 2018
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Insecure DLL loading (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4938)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on vulnerable system.
The weakness exists due to insecure .dll loading mechanism when opening files. A local attacker can place a file along with specially crafted .dll file on a remote SBM or WebDAV share and execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
2) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4939)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable system.
The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input, trigger deserialization flaw and execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4940)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4941)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
5) XXE attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4942)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform XXE attack on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient validation for external entities. A remote attacker can perform XXE attack and gain access to potentially sensitive information.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.