Security News > 2023 > December > Hackers breach US govt agencies using Adobe ColdFusion exploit

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning about hackers actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion identified as CVE-2023-26360 to gain initial access to government servers.
The security issue allows executing arbitrary code on servers running Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Update 15 and older, and 2021 Update 5 and earlier.
The first incident was recorded on June 26 and relied on the critical vulnerability to breach a server running Adobe ColdFusion v2016.
The second incident occurred on June 2 when the hackers exploited CVE-2023-26360 on a server running Adobe ColdFusion v2021.
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2023-03-23 | CVE-2023-26360 | Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion 2018/2021 Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018 Update 15 (and earlier) and 2021 Update 5 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. | 8.6 |