CVE-2025-43566 (GCVE-0-2025-43566)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-13 20:49
Modified
2025-05-14 14:11
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') ()
Summary
ColdFusion versions 2025.1, 2023.13, 2021.19 and earlier are affected by an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. A high-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security protections and gain unauthorized read access. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction and scope is changed.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Adobe ColdFusion Version: 0   ≤ 2021.19
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