CVE record · CVE-2025-54261

ColdFusion | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22)

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.26 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 10.0 (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.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: adobe) at 9 Sept 2025, 16:58 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
VendorProductVersions
Adobe ColdFusion
  • affected 2021.21 and earlier semver
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-54261
CNA
adobe
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Published
9 Sept 2025
Updated
8 Oct 2025

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
10.0 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (adobe)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.26, the 98th 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 9 Sept 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.