#202020

Adobe Security Bulletin

Last updated on Sep 8, 2026

Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB26-119

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Date published

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APSB26-119

September 8, 2026

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Summary

Adobe has released a security update for ColdFusion versions 2025 and 2023. This update resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and application denial-of-service.

Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in this update.

Affected Versions

Product

Update number

Platform

ColdFusion 2025

2025.12 and earlier versions

All

ColdFusion 2023

2023.23 and earlier versions

All

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Solution

Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installations to the newest versions:

Product

Updated version

Platform

Priority rating

Availability

ColdFusion 2025

2025.13

All

Tech Note

ColdFusion 2023

2023.24

All

Tech Note

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Note

For security reasons, we strongly recommend to use latest mysql java connector. For more information on its usage, please refer to: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-configuring-mysql-jdbc.html

See the updated serial filter documentation for more details on protection against insecure deserialization attacks: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-serialfilter-file.html

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Vulnerability Details

CVE-2026-48273

Vulnerability category: Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') (CWE-95)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 9.9
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-75746

Vulnerability category: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') (CWE-89)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 9.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-76190

Vulnerability category: Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') (CWE-95)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 8.6
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE-2026-75993

Vulnerability category: Cross-site Scripting (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)
Vulnerability impact: Privilege escalation
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 8.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVE-2026-75999

Vulnerability category: Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 8.4
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-75998

Vulnerability category: Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary file system read
Severity: Critical
CVSS base score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2026-76000

Vulnerability category: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
Vulnerability impact: Application denial-of-service
Severity: Important
CVSS base score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2026-76002

Vulnerability category: Cross-site Scripting (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Important
CVSS base score: 6.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE-2026-21269

Vulnerability category: Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)
Vulnerability impact: Arbitrary code execution
Severity: Important
CVSS base score: 4.6
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Note

Effective August 11, 2026, Adobe may assign a single CVE identifier to internally discovered vulnerabilities with the same severity rating and CWE category when a release includes systemic fixes.

Note

Adobe recommends updating your ColdFusion JDK/JRE LTS version to the latest update release as a secure practice. The ColdFusion downloads page is regularly updated to include the latest Java installers for the JDK version your installation supports as per the matrices below.

For instructions on how to use an external JDK, view Change ColdFusion JVM.

Adobe also recommends applying the security configuration settings included in the ColdFusion Security documentation as well as review the respective Lockdown guides.

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Acknowledgements:

COLDFUSION 2025 (version 2023.0.0.331385) and above
For Application Servers

On JEE installations, set the following JVM flag, “-Djdk.serialFilter= !org.mozilla.**;!com.sun.syndication.**;!org.apache.commons.beanutils.**;!org.jgroups.**;!com.sun.rowset.**; !com.mysql.cj.jdbc.interceptors.**;!org.apache.commons.collections.**; " in the respective startup file depending on the type of Application Server being used.

AnirudhAnand (a0xnirudh) — CVE-2026-48273
wayne g (waynezinn) — CVE-2026-75746, CVE-2026-75998
anonymous_blackzero — CVE-2026-75993
Matan Sandori (matans1) — CVE-2026-75999, CVE-2026-76000, CVE-2026-76002

NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with Intigriti. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://app.intigriti.com/programs/adobe/adobepublic/detail.

For more information, visit https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/bug-bounty.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.

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