Description

ColdFusion is affected by a Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

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  "score": "7.5",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-11T17:18:00.310Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-08-11T17:18:00.310Z",
  "executiveSummary": "ColdFusion is affected by a Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability that exposes sensitive memory structures. The primary impact of this flaw is the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, potentially compromising internal system data and application integrity. The vulnerability affects ColdFusion implementations utilizing insecure cryptographic mechanisms. The risk implications are severe, as unauthorized actors can harvest sensitive memory contents without requiring prior authentication or user interaction. Attackers leveraging this vulnerability can passively or actively extract sensitive data residing in memory, which may include session identifiers, internal configuration parameters, or credentials. Exploitation is streamlined due to the absence of required user interaction, allowing remote threat actors to target vulnerable instances directly. Defensive strategies must focus on identifying cryptographic misconfigurations and applying vendor-supplied updates or hardening guidelines to replace broken algorithms with cryptographically secure alternatives.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability stems from the implementation and usage of a Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm within the ColdFusion architecture. Cryptographic primitives that fail to meet modern security standards or exhibit known mathematical weaknesses are employed for operations handling sensitive internal data or memory management. The root cause lies in the reliance on deprecated or structurally flawed cryptographic functions that fail to provide adequate confidentiality and integrity guarantees.\nThe vulnerable component involves cryptographic routines and memory handling subroutines within ColdFusion. When processing specific requests or managing internal state, the application utilizes the weak cryptographic algorithm to encrypt, hash, or encode sensitive data structures stored within memory. Because the underlying algorithm suffers from inherent design weaknesses, such as collision vulnerabilities, insufficient key lengths, or poor entropy generation, the resulting cryptographic protections can be bypassed or structurally inverted.\nThe attack flow proceeds as follows: an unauthenticated attacker targets the ColdFusion instance over the network. By interacting with endpoints or functions that trigger the flawed cryptographic operations, the attacker induces the application to process or expose data handled by the weak algorithm. Due to the cryptographic weakness, sensitive memory contents are either directly leaked in the application response or rendered vulnerable to algorithmic exploitation, enabling the retrieval of sensitive information from memory.\nExploitation requirements are minimal. The attack does not require user interaction, and based on the vector parameters, can typically be executed remotely over standard network protocols depending on the specific endpoint exposure. Privilege requirements and authentication specifics align with the accessibility of the affected functions within ColdFusion. The post-exploitation impact centers on unauthorized information disclosure, where harvested memory contents can be leveraged to mount secondary attacks, escalate privileges, or facilitate unauthorized access to backend systems and integrated databases."
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