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Secunia Advisory SA10743

Cold Fusion MX Form Denial of Service and Sandbox Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA10743
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Release Date 2004-01-29
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

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.


Solution
Sand Box Security patch:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Form field vulnerability reported by Michael Leahy.

Original Advisory
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb04-01.html
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb04-02.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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