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CVE-2017-3066 · Adobe ColdFusion · Published 2017-04-27
9.8 out of 10
CVSS rates it critical: about as damaging as flaws get.
91%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 592 days ago (2025-03-17).
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Adobe ColdFusion contains a deserialization vulnerability in the Apache BlazeDS library that allows for arbitrary code execution.
Adobe ColdFusion 2016 Update 3 and earlier, ColdFusion 11 update 11 and earlier, ColdFusion 10 Update 22 and earlier have a Java deserialization vulnerability in the Apache BlazeDS library. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Rebuilding objects from untrusted saved data can trigger unintended behaviour.
CWE-502 · CISA KEV; NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0; NVD record: nvd@nist.gov
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