How severe is CVE-2010-2861?

CVE-2010-2861 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 99.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2010-2861: Adobe ColdFusion Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe ColdFusion Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2861

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the administrator console in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the locale parameter to (1) CFIDE/administrator/settings/mappings.cfm, (2) logging/settings.cfm, (3) datasources/index.cfm, (4) j2eepackaging/editarchive.cfm, and (5) enter.cfm in CFIDE/administrator/.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

5 Links

Third-party advisories

Other references

Record Details

Published

2010-08-11

Last updated

2026-10-01

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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