Adobe Issues Critical Patches for ColdFusion, Flash Player, Campaign Software

Jun 11, 2019

It’s Patch Tuesday week!

Adobe has just released the latest June 2019 software updates to
address a total 11 security vulnerabilities in its three
widely-used products Adobe ColdFusion, Flash Player, and Adobe
Campaign.

Out of these, three vulnerabilities affect Adobe ColdFusion, a
commercial rapid web application development platform—all critical
in severity—that could lead to arbitrary code execution
attacks.

Here below you can find brief information about all newly patched
ColdFusion
flaws:

CVE-2019-7838 — This vulnerability has been categorized
as “File extension blacklist bypass” and can be exploited if the
file uploads directory is web accessible.
CVE-2019-7839 — There’s a command injection
vulnerability in ColdFusion 2016 and 2018 editions, but it does not
impact ColdFusion version 11.
CVE-2019-7840 — This flaw originates from the
deserialization of untrusted data and also leads to arbitrary code
execution on the system.

Besides ColdFusion, Adobe has patched just one vulnerability
(CVE-2019-7845 ^[2]) in the infamous Flash
Player software this month, which is also critical in severity and
leads to arbitrary code execution on the affected Windows, macOS,
Linux or Chrome OS-based system.

This flaw was reported by an anonymous cybersecurity researcher
to the Adobe and can now be patched by installing the latest Flash
player version 32.0.0.207.

The rest 7 flaws that Adobe patched this month resides in Adobe Campaign
Classic (ACC), an advanced cross-channel marketing and campaign
management platform, one of which is critical in severity, three
have been rated important and other 3 poses little threat to users.

The only critical flaw (CVE-2019-7843) in Adobe Campaign could
allow attackers to execute commands on the affected systems
(Windows and Linux) through arbitrary code execution flaw.

Fortunately, the company is not aware of any in-the-wild exploit
for the vulnerabilities it addressed today.

Adobe has released updated versions of all three vulnerable
software for each impacted platform that users should install
immediately to protect their systems and businesses from cyber
attacks.

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References

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Injection. Injection flaws, such as SQL, NoSQL, OS, and LDAP injection, occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query. The attacker’s hostile data can trick the interpreter into executing unintended commands or accessing data without proper authorization. Broken Authentication. Application functions related to authentication and session management are often implemented incorrectly, allowing attackers to compromise passwords, keys, or session tokens, or to exploit other implementation flaws to assume other users’ identities temporarily or permanently. Sensitive Data Exposure. Many web applications and APIs do not properly protect sensitive data, such as financial, healthcare, and PII. Attackers may steal or modify such weakly protected data to conduct credit card fraud, identity theft, or other crimes. Sensitive data may be compromised without extra protection, such as encryption at rest or in transit, and requires special precautions when exchanged with the browser. XML External Entities (XXE). Many older or poorly configured XML processors evaluate external entity references within XML documents. External entities can be used to disclose internal files using the file URI handler, internal file shares, internal port scanning, remote code execution, and denial of service attacks. Broken Access Control. Restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do are often not properly enforced. Attackers can exploit these flaws to access unauthorized functionality and/or data, such as access other users’ accounts, view sensitive files, modify other users’ data, change access rights, etc. Security Misconfiguration. Security misconfiguration is the most commonly seen issue. This is commonly a result of insecure default configurations, incomplete or ad hoc configurations, open cloud storage, misconfigured HTTP headers, and verbose error messages containing sensitive information. Not only must all operating systems, frameworks, libraries, and applications be securely configured, but they must be patched/upgraded in a timely fashion. Cross-Site Scripting XSS. XSS flaws occur whenever an application includes untrusted data in a new web page without proper validation or escaping, or updates an existing web page with user-supplied data using a browser API that can create HTML or JavaScript. XSS allows attackers to execute scripts in the victim’s browser which can hijack user sessions, deface web sites, or redirect the user to malicious sites. Insecure Deserialization. Insecure deserialization often leads to remote code execution. Even if deserialization flaws do not result in remote code execution, they can be used to perform attacks, including replay attacks, injection attacks, and privilege escalation attacks. Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities. Components, such as libraries, frameworks, and other software modules, run with the same privileges as the application. If a vulnerable component is exploited, such an attack can facilitate serious data loss or server takeover. Applications and APIs using components with known vulnerabilities may undermine application defenses and enable various attacks and impacts. Insufficient Logging & Monitoring. Insufficient logging and monitoring, coupled with missing or ineffective integration with incident response, allows attackers to further attack systems, maintain persistence, pivot to more systems, and tamper, extract, or destroy data. Most breach studies show time to detect a breach is over 200 days, typically detected by external parties rather than internal processes or monitoring.

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