cfobject sure, but cfcontent ?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Jochem van Dieten <joch...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Russ Michaels wrote:
> > well the only reason they could have all those tags disabled is because
> > they do not use security sandboxes, which would imply they are hosting
> with
> > the standard edition of ColdFusion, and tus have to disable any tag which
> > allows files to be read/written from the server.
>
> If that were the case they would disable tags like cffile and
> cfdirectory. Instead, what they have disabled are those tags that
> allows you to instantiate arbitrary Java/COM/.NET classes and run
> executables. (Plus cfdump which uses cfobject internally so would be
> broken if enabled.) Those are the tags that allow you to bypass even a
> properly configured security sandbox.
>
> Unfortunately sandboxes are imperfect and this is the price you pay if
> you have to share an instance with somebody else.
>
> Jochem
>
> --
> Jochem van Dieten
> http://jochem.vandieten.net/
>
> 

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