CVEs / CVE-2009-3960

CVE-2009-3960: Adobe BlazeDS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 7 Mar 2022
medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
EPSS 90.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
Last changed at its sources 6 Aug 2026

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Summary

Adobe BlazeDS, which is utilized in LifeCycle and Coldfusion, contains a vulnerability that allows for information disclosure.
CISA, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in BlazeDS 3.2 and earlier, as used in LiveCycle 8.0.1, 8.2.1, and 9.0, LiveCycle Data Services 2.5.1, 2.6.1, and 3.0, Flex Data Services 2.0.1, and ColdFusion 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.0.1, and 9.0, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors that are associated with a request, and related to injected tags and external entity references in XML documents.
The CVE record, via NVD · published 15 Feb 2010 · NVD status: Analyzed

Affected and fixed versions

As stated by the CVE record (from the CNA)
Product	Affected	Fixed in
n/a n/a	n/a	—

Exploitation

In CISA KEV since	7 Mar 2022
Due date for US federal agencies	7 Sep 2022
Used in ransomware campaigns	Known
Required action	Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity

CVSS 3.1	6.5 medium `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N` Scored by NVD

References

CVE-2009-3960 on NVD
CVE-2009-3960 in the CISA KEV catalog
http://secunia.com/advisories/38543 Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023584 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-05.html Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/62292 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38197 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41855/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-3960 US Government Resource

Sources

Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.

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