Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-49538

High

Published: 08 July 2025

Published
08 July 2025
Modified
11 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0063 70.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-49538 is a high-severity aka Blind XPath Injection (CWE-91) vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

ColdFusion versions 2025.2, 2023.14, 2021.20 and earlier are affected by an XML Injection vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. An attacker can exploit this issue by injecting crafted XML or XPath queries to access unauthorized files or…

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lead to denial of service. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction, and attack must have access to shared secrets.

CWE(s)
CWE-91

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

adobe
coldfusion
2021, 2023, 2025

Mitigating Controls

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

References