CVE-2025-61823 (GCVE-0-2025-61823)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 23:41 – Updated: 2025-12-10 16:50
VLAI?
Summary
ColdFusion versions 2025.4, 2023.16, 2021.22 and earlier are affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. A high privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access sensitive files and data on the server. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction and scope is changed.
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CWE-611)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Adobe | ColdFusion |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2021.22
(semver)
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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