Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe ColdFusion, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting and brute-force attacks.
The first issue is specific to ColdFusion and Windows IIS 6 installations and is caused by an input validation error when processing the "User-Agent" header, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.
The second vulnerability is caused by an input validation error when processing user-supplied data while the "Application.cfm" or "Application.cfc" files contains the "setEncoding" function, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.
The third weakness is caused by a design error in the admin interface that does not log failed log-in attempts, which could potententially facilitate brute-force attacks.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Millennium Communications, Shigeyoshi Muraoka (IT Frontier Corporation), and the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-03-12 : Initial release
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