A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe ColdFusion MX, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by insecure permissions being set on various files and directories (world writable), which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with "root" privileges when a vulnerable server is restarted.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs) and Hans Omli (Shoe String Ventures).
ChangeLog
2007-04-11 : Initial release
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