Security readout for executives and security teams
A legacy flaw in Allaire ColdFusion 4.5.1 and earlier lets a remote attacker crash the ColdFusion Administrator login by submitting an overly long password. The impact is a denial of service against the admin interface, not data theft or code execution. It affects an end-of-life product, so any exposure today reflects severely outdated infrastructure that should be retired. Exposure is limited to organizations still running Allaire ColdFusion 4.5.1 or earlier, a product long past end-of-life. Any internet-exposed ColdFusion Administrator from that era would be at risk, but modern deployments have migrated to Adobe ColdFusion releases that are not implicated by this CVE. Low priority for modern environments. Treat as a legacy hygiene indicator: if any ColdFusion 4.5.1 systems are still in production, the business risk is not this DoS but the broader liability of running unsupported 25-year-old software. Fold remediation into standard end-of-life decommissioning work. Mitigation focus: Retire or upgrade any ColdFusion 4.5.1 or earlier instance to a supported Adobe ColdFusion release.; Consult Allaire/Adobe advisory ASB00-14 for the vendor's original remediation guidance.; Restrict access to the ColdFusion Administrator interface to trusted management networks only..
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- coldfusion-parse-dos(4611)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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