Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ColdFusion Causes DoS

Executive Summary

This vulnerability affects ColdFusion versions 2023.18, 2025.6, and earlier. It is an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that can be exploited by a high-privileged attacker to exhaust system resources.

Exploiting this vulnerability can lead to a denial-of-service condition for the application by reducing its speed and availability.

Importantly, exploitation does not require any user interaction.

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Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can impact you by causing a denial-of-service condition in the affected ColdFusion application.

A high-privileged attacker could exploit this issue to exhaust system resources, which would reduce the application's speed and potentially make it unavailable.

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Compliance Impact

The provided information does not specify any direct impact of this vulnerability on compliance with common standards and regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.

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