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CVE-2020-9673

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9673 is a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability affecting Adobe ColdFusion 2016 (update 15 and earlier) and ColdFusion 2018 (update 9 and earlier). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High) and could lead to privilege escalation if successfully exploited. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L). While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) or publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:coldfusion:2016:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:coldfusion:2016:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:coldfusion:2016:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:coldfusion:2016:update11:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:coldfusion:2016:update12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0104 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/coldfusion/apsb20-43.html
Vendor Advisory