CVE record · CVE-2018-15965

Deserialization of untrusted data in Adobe ColdFusion

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.26 · 97th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.26 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: adobe) at 25 Sept 2018, 13:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Adobe	ColdFusion	affected July 12 release (2018.0.0.310739), Update 6 and earlier, and Update 14 and earlier versions

Identifiers: CVE-2018-15965
CNA: adobe
Weakness (CWE): CWE-502
Tags: Adobe ColdFusion
Insecure deserialization
Published: 25 Sept 2018
Updated: 6 May 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.26, the 97th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Sept 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb18-33.html confirm
www.securitytracker.com/id/1041621 vdb-entrysectrack
www.securityfocus.com/bid/105313 vdb-entrybid

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