Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40698

High

Published: 07 September 2023

Published
07 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40698 is a high-severity Use of Inherently Dangerous Function (CWE-242) vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ColdFusion version 2021 update 1 (and earlier) and versions 2018.10 (and earlier) are impacted by an Use of Inherently Dangerous Function vulnerability that can lead to a security feature bypass . An authenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to access…

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and manipulate arbitrary data on the environment.

CWE(s)
CWE-242

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

adobe
coldfusion
2018, 2021 · ≤ 2018

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References