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Cold Fusion MX Form Denial of Service and Sandbox Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA10743
Release Date: 2004-01-29
Popularity: 7,721 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Macromedia has reported two vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a Denial of Service or by local users to bypass the sandbox restrictions.

It is possible to consume large amounts of CPU resources by submitting a form with hundreds of inputs using range or type validation.

It is possible to break out if the sandbox by instantiating classes without using "CreateObject()" or "<cfobject>".

The sandbox restriction bypass vulnerability only affects ColdFusion MX 6.1 Enterprise and J2EE.

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