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Adobe ColdFusion MX Insecure Directory and File Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA24850
Release Date: 2007-04-11
Popularity: 8,412 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Adobe ColdFusion MX 7.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Adobe ColdFusion MX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the application having certain files and directories with insecure permissions i.e. world writable. This can be exploited to gain escalated privileges at the next server restart by replacing or editing the affected files.

The security issue reportedly affects versions 7.x.

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