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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2019.4635 APSB19-58AÂ Security update available for Adobe ColdFusion 12 December 2019 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: Adobe ColdFusion Publisher: Adobe Operating System: Windows UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account Access Confidential Data -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2019-8256 Original Bulletin: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb19-58.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security updates available for ColdFusion | APSB19-58 +-----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------+ |Bulletin ID |Date Published |Priority | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------+ |APSB19-58 |December 10, 2019 |2 | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------------+ Summary Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion version 2018. Thisupdate resolves an important vulnerability that could lead toprivilegeescalation. Affected Versions +--------------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | Product | Affected Versions | Platform | +--------------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+ |ColdFusion2018|Update 6 and earlier versions |All | +--------------+------------------------------------------------+-------------+ Solution Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installations to the newest versions: +-----------------+-----------------+---------+-----------------+-------------+ | Product | Updated Version |Platform | Priority rating |Availability | +-----------------+-----------------+---------+-----------------+-------------+ |ColdFusion 2018 |Update 7 |All |2 |Tech note | +-----------------+-----------------+---------+-----------------+-------------+ NOTE: Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE to the latest version. Applying the ColdFusion update without a corresponding JDK update will NOT secure the server. See the relevant Tech Notes for more details. Adobe recommends customers apply the security configuration settings as outlined on the ColdFusion Security page as well asreview the respective Lockdown guides. o ColdFusion 2018Auto-Lockdown guide Vulnerability Details +------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------------------+ | Vulnerability Category |Vulnerability|Severity | CVE Numbers | | | Impact | | | +------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------------------+ |Insecure inherited permissions|Privilege | | | |of default installation |Escalation |Important|CVE-2019-8256 | |directory | | | | +------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------------------+ Note: Customers who have followed the lockdown procedures during installation are not impacted by this issue. Acknowledgements Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers: o NuttakornTungpoonsup,AmmaritThongthuaandSittikornSangrattanapitakfromSecure DCenterResearch Team, Secure DCenterCo.,Ltd.(CVE-2019-8256) ColdFusion JDK Requirement COLDFUSION 2018 HF1 and above For Application Servers On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, "-Djdk.serialFilter= ! org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**", in the respective startup file depending on the type of Application Server being used. For example: Apache Tomcat Application Server:edit JAVA_OPTS in the 'Catalina.bat/sh' file WebLogic Application Server:edit JAVA_OPTIONS in the 'startWeblogic.cmd' file WildFly/EAP Application Server:edit JAVA_OPTS in the 'standalone.conf' file Set the JVM flags on a JEE installation of ColdFusion, not on a standalone installation. 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