Adobe ColdFusion 9.0/9.0.1/9.0.2/10.0 Remote Development Services administrator.cfc information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0/9.0.1/9.0.2/10.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file administrator.cfc of the component Remote Development Services. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2013-0632. In addition, an exploit is available. It is suggested to enhance authentication.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0/9.0.1/9.0.2/10.0 (Programming Language Software). Affected is some unknown functionality of the file administrator.cfc of the component Remote Development Services. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

administrator.cfc in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 10 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and possibly execute arbitrary code by logging in to the RDS component using the default empty password and leveraging this session to access the administrative web interface, as exploited in the wild in January 2013.

The weakness was presented 01/11/2013 by Will Fuller and Scott Buckel with Corporate Zen as APSA13-01 as confirmed bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at adobe.com. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2013-0632 since 12/18/2012. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by metasploit in Ruby and been published 4 months after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at dev.metasploit.com. It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 64689 (Adobe ColdFusion Authentication Bypass (APSB13-03)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120771 (Adobe ColdFusion Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSA13-01, APSB13-03)). This issue was added on 03/03/2022 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 03/24/2022:

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Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at helpx.adobe.com. It is possible to mitigate the problem by adding an authentication mechanism. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be adding authentication. A possible mitigation has been published 4 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 12891.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (24946), Zero-Day.cz (245), Tenable (64689), SecurityFocus (BID 57330†) and OSVDB (89096†). Further details are available at securityweek.com. See VDB-7234, VDB-7235 and VDB-7236 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 64689
Nessus Name: Adobe ColdFusion Authentication Bypass (APSB13-03)
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Patch: helpx.adobe.com
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: APSA13-01
Researcher: Will Fuller, Scott Buckel
Organization: Corporate Zen
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2013-0632 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0632
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7338
SecurityFocus: 57330 - Adobe ColdFusion CVE-2013-0632 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
OSVDB: 89096
Vulnerability Center: 38092 - [APSB13-03, APSA13-01] Adobe ColdFusion 10, 9.0.2, 9.0.1 and 9.0 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability, Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/16/2013 11:55
Updated: 04/22/2026 11:49
Changes: 01/16/2013 11:55 (96), 04/23/2017 19:34 (2), 04/22/2021 08:41 (3), 04/23/2024 09:09 (28), 07/14/2024 16:11 (4), 07/16/2024 22:47 (12), 09/09/2024 22:29 (1), 02/04/2025 23:38 (13), 04/22/2026 11:49 (11)
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