Just a bit goofy writing in that article but this involves the richtext
feature that was introduced in CF 8. So not older version at all.
John
Charlie Arehart wrote:
I'm curious about their phrasing of "older installations of Cold Fusion
applications" and FCKEditor. It was only included as of CF8 (codenamed
scorpio, as mentioned in this news from the fckeditor folks:
http://www.fckeditor.net/Adobe_to_embed_FCKeditor_in_ColdFusion). So it's
too bad that the opening lines suggest it affects only "older
installations".
Also, FWIW, this blog entry by an Adobe engineer
(http://www.rakshith.net/blog/?p=41), from 2007, says specifically that the
file upload feature in FCKEditor was disabled by default in CF8, so it would
seem only those who enabled that who would have the issue.
Not diminishing the concern. Just saying the info shared by the seems rather
incomplete, and potentially confusing. But as someone already added as a
comment there, perhaps the real issue is the cffile upload aspect, and they
point readers to Pete F's recent blog entry on that.
/charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dean H.
Saxe
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Attacks in the wild
FYI http://bit.ly/dUdvv
"There have been a high number of Cold Fusion web sites being
compromised in last 24 hours. We received several e-mails about this.
It appears that the attackers are exploiting web sites which have
older installations of some Cold Fusion applications. These
applications have vulnerable installations of FCKEditor, which is a
very popular HTML text editor, or CKFinder, which is an Ajax file
manager. The vulnerable installations allow the attackers to upload
ASP or Cold Fusion shells which further allow them to take complete
control over the server."
I have known about this for a few months now, but had to be silent on
it. Adobe hasn't patched it (yet) but the attacks are in the wild...
-dhs
Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
[email protected]
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear."
-- George Orwell, 1945
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