CVE-2025-49538 is an XML Injection vulnerability, described as Blind XPath Injection, affecting Adobe ColdFusion 2025.2, 2023.14, 2021.20, and earlier releases in those branches. The flaw allows an attacker to inject crafted XML or XPath queries into vulnerable processing logic, resulting in unauthorized access to files on the underlying file system. The issue can also be leveraged to trigger denial-of-service conditions. Available reporting indicates the vulnerability is remotely exploitable without user interaction.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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Blind XPath XML injection vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion allowing unauthenticated remote reading of arbitrary files without user interaction.
A critical XML injection vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion allowing arbitrary file system read.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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