CVE-2010-5290: Adobe ColdFusion

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The authentication process in Adobe ColdFusion before 10 does not require knowledge of the cleartext password if the password hash is known, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain administrative privileges by leveraging read access to the configuration file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2861.

Affected products

• Adobe ColdFusion: up to and including 9.0.2; version 9.0 only; version 9.0.1 only

Published 2013-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.