CVE-2013-0632
administrator.cfc in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 10 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and possibly execute…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 93.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 3 Mar 2022
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
administrator.cfc in Adobe ColdFusion 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, and 10 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and possibly execute arbitrary code by logging in to the RDS component using the default empty password and leveraging this session to access the administrative web interface, as exploited in the wild in January 2013.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe ColdFusion Authentication Bypass Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 24 Mar 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 3 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 3 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 exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe ColdFusion RDS Authentication Bypass (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/coldfusion_rds_auth_bypassRank greatdisclosed 8 Aug 2013
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Adobe ColdFusion 9 - Administrative Authentication Bypass (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30210remote, multiplepublished 11 Dec 2013Verified
- Adobe ColdFusion 9 - Administrative Authentication Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27755webapps, windowspublished 21 Aug 2013Not verified
- Adobe ColdFusion APSB13-03 - Remote Multiple Vulnerabilities (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24946remote, multiplepublished 10 Apr 2013Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 30210 (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
- 30 days later
· 30 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 93.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 30210 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa13-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2013-0632 (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-2013-0643 (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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