CVE-2001-1514: Macromedia ColdFusion

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ColdFusion 4.5 and 5, when running on Windows with the advanced security sandbox type set to "operating system," does not properly pass security context to (1) child processes created with <CFEXECUTE> and (2) child processes that call the CreateProcess function and are executed with <CFOBJECT> or end with the CFX extension, which allows attackers to execute programs with the permissions of the System account.

Affected products

• Macromedia ColdFusion: version 4.5 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.