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Adobe ColdFusion CKEditor unrestricted file upload

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Disclosed
Sep 11, 2018
Created
Mar 19, 2019

Description

A file upload vulnerability in the CKEditor of Adobe ColdFusion 11
(Update 14 and earlier), ColdFusion 2016 (Update 6 and earlier), and
ColdFusion 2018 (July 12 release) allows unauthenticated remote
attackers to upload and execute JSP files through the filemanager
plugin.
Tested on Adobe ColdFusion 2018.0.0.310739.

Authors

Pete Freitag de Foundeo
Vahagn vah_13 Vardanian
Qazeer

Platform

Linux,Windows

Architectures

java

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/coldfusion_ckeditor_file_upload
    msf exploit(coldfusion_ckeditor_file_upload) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(coldfusion_ckeditor_file_upload) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(coldfusion_ckeditor_file_upload) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(coldfusion_ckeditor_file_upload) > exploit
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