A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Macromedia ColdFusion up to 4.5.1. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unknown vulnerability in ColdFusion Server 2.0 through 4.5.1 SP2 allows remote attackers to overwrite templates with zero byte files via unknown attack vectors.

The weakness was released 07/11/2001 with Macromedia as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2001-1427 since 03/22/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6840) and SecurityFocus (BID 3023†).

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• Macromedia

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• ColdFusion

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• 2.0
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.1
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.5
• 4.5.1

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• commercial

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