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high 8.6

CVE-2016-4264 in the critical feed json

The Office Open XML (OOXML) feature in Adobe ColdFusion 10 before Update 21 and 11 before Update 10 allows remote attackers to read arbitra…

published 2016-09-01 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5264

cvss
8.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
69.0%
EPSS 69.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Office Open XML (OOXML) feature in Adobe ColdFusion 10 before Update 21 and 11 before Update 10 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or send TCP requests to intranet servers via a crafted OOXML spreadsheet containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40346)

Exploit prediction

69.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40346 Adobe ColdFusion < 11 Update 10 - XML External Entity Injection webapps, 2016-09-07
  • legalhackers.com http://legalhackers.com/advisories/Adobe-ColdFusion-11-XXE-Exploit-CVE-2016-4264.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.