CVE-2009-3960
Unspecified vulnerability in BlazeDS 3.2 and earlier, as used in LiveCycle 8.0.1, 8.2.1, and 9.0, LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.1, 2.6.1,…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 90.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 7 Mar 2022
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in BlazeDS 3.2 and earlier, as used in LiveCycle 8.0.1, 8.2.1, and 9.0, LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.1, 2.6.1, and 3.0, Flex Data Services 2.0.1, and ColdFusion 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.0.1, and 9.0, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors that are associated with a request, and related to injected tags and external entity references in XML documents.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe BlazeDS Information Disclosure Vulnerability.
- Added
- 7 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 7 Sept 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 7 Mar 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe XML External Entity Injection (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/adobe_xml_injectRank normal
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Adobe (Multiple Products) - XML Injection File Content Disclosure (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41855webapps, xmlpublished 7 Apr 2017Not verified
- Adobe (Multiple Products) - XML External Entity / XML Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 11529dos, multiplepublished 22 Feb 2010Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 41855 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited, also by ransomware
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 90.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- 38197 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1023584 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 62292 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 38543 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 41855 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-05.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-3960 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-3931 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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