Vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion

CVE-2010-5290

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.

EPSS: 0.055 (92.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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