module

Adobe ColdFusion 9 Administrative Login Bypass

Disclosed	Created
Aug 8, 2013	May 30, 2018

Disclosed

Aug 8, 2013

Created

May 30, 2018

Description

Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 10 allows remote
attackers to bypass authentication using the RDS component. Due to
default settings or misconfiguration, its password can be set to an
empty value. This allows an attacker to create a session via the RDS
login that can be carried over to the admin web interface even though
the passwords might be different, and therefore bypassing authentication
on the admin web interface leading to arbitrary code execution. Tested
on Windows and Linux with ColdFusion 9.

Authors

Scott Buckel
Mekanismen [email protected]

Platform

Linux,Windows

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_rds
    msf exploit(coldfusion_rds) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(coldfusion_rds) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(coldfusion_rds) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(coldfusion_rds) > exploit

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