Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2010-2861

Adobe ColdFusion Directory Traversal Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Adobe
Product ColdFusion
Weakness CWE-22

The vulnerability

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the administrator console in Adobe ColdFusion which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 April 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Ransomware

CISA records this vulnerability as having been used in ransomware campaigns. That is a confirmed observation, not an assessment of likelihood.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 00:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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