Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Andy Allan
ColdFusion 7 is no longer supported by Adobe. Therefore only customers who have extended support, which you pay for, are entitled to a fix for CF7. But has already been pointed out, just restrict your /CFIDE. Andy On 11 August 2010 22:17, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Wait a

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Baughman
Millions of sites applying one patch is better than Millions of sites applying Millions of patches ^^ http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-issues-record-number-of-patches/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Just a reminder, we published a ColdFusion 9 Server Lockdown Guide back in June. It provides details and instructions for securing the ColdFusion Administrator. While the guide was written for ColdFusion 9 specifically, most of the tips will apply to version 6+.

RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Jacob
Same here... restricted by internal IP address and username/password. -Original Message- From: Andrew Grosset [mailto:rushg...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:08 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches phew!! for a moment I

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Is it sufficient to restrict access to /cfide/administrator? The easiest solution is to restrict access to /CFIDE/, which unfortunately only a slight majority of Coldfusion sites have done. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Watts
Is it sufficient to restrict access to /cfide/administrator? You may also want to restrict access to /CFIDE/adminapi. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Larry Lyons
I get 2,800,000,000 results. If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results. andy Richard Brain of ProCheckUp commented “This is a trivial attack which can be performed easily by a competent engineer; ProCheckUp thanks Adobe for consciously working with us to produce a

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Procheckup news
For the bare minimum restrict access to the following directories:- /CFIDE/adminapi/ /CFIDE/administrator/ /CFIDE/componentutils/ /CFIDE/wizards/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Tony Bentley
Can someone pass me the Perl regex to allow the scripts folder? I'm just not getting it on my own. So the rule would match anything that contains /CFIDE/ *except /CFIDE/SCRIPTS/ case insensitive. Thanks in advance for saving me hours and hours of trial and error.

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Pete Freitag
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.comwrote: Can someone pass me the Perl regex to allow the scripts folder? I'm just not getting it on my own. So the rule would match anything that contains /CFIDE/ *except /CFIDE/SCRIPTS/ case insensitive. You can put

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-12 Thread Tony Bentley
Thanks Pete. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with a virtual directory issue and ghetto architecture in IIS. I was able to figure out how to lock it down using the firewall and http proxy rules. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Pete Freitag p...@foundeo.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:21 PM,

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Andrew Grosset
phew!! for a moment I was worried No authentication is needed; all that is needed is that the admin console is accessible to the Internet. Apply patches as described below, or restrict access to /CIDE/administrator/ by IP address or other similar controls. this line is important:

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Gerald Guido
Wait a second According the ProCheckUp site the vulnerability affects ColdFusion MX7 7,0,0,91690 base patches ColdFusion MX8 8,0,1,195765 base patches ColdFusion MX8 8,0,1,195765 with Hotfix4 And Adobe's Security bulletin says it affects ColdFusion 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 9.0.1 and earlier versions

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Mandel
While I'm glad that Adobe and Procheckup have worked this out, it shows yet another reason why people should be making sure that their cfadmin is not publicly accessible. Making it only accessible from behind a firewall or vpn should be something is something that I think people should be doing

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Procheckup news
Regrettably Adobe has seen fit to release only patches for version 8 and version 9. The easiest solution is to restrict access to /CFIDE/, which unfortunately only a slight majority of Coldfusion sites have done. The greatest problem is that the patches can be easily analysed and reverse

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Gerald Guido
My intention is not to spread FUD, but to ensure people are patched and 'ready' ASAP. If that is your intention, then don't release the 'sploit. G! On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Procheckup news n...@procheckup.comwrote: Regrettably Adobe has seen fit to release only patches for version

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Watts
If that is your intention, then don't release the 'sploit. There are two problems with that: 1. Without an exploit for testing, how can you tell if you're secure? Tools like Nessus, etc, rely on this for their functionality. 2. The exploit can presumably be derived by comparing the public

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Procheckup news
Whether to release the exploit or not is subject to a number of different practical and moral considerations. Firstly security testers and testing tools need to have functional and working exploits to validate if their customer’s sites are secure; if exploits are not released they cannot do

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread rex
If we restrict access to CFIDE, won't the tags that make use of resources in this directory break? For example, the CF ajax features reference the file cfide/scripts/ajax/package/cfajax.js If we block CFIDE, these would break. What would be the workaround? Procheckup news wrote:

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Mandel
Just expose the scripts, you don't have to expose the entire admin. This could be done by simply copying them, or if you are on Apache, use aliases, or on Linux, symbolic links, IIS Virtual directories (I think, I don't really use IIS)... Lots of options. Mark On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:52 AM,

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread rex
By golly it worked! Is the CFIDE/scripts directory the only one needed to be remapped? Mark Mandel wrote: Just expose the scripts, you don't have to expose the entire admin. This could be done by simply copying them, or if you are on Apache, use aliases, or on Linux, symbolic links, IIS

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread denstar
ISAPI rewrite (1st one) http://www.robgonda.com/blog/files/robGonda/UserFiles/File/bprucell.2005.11.03.txt This has lots of good stuff: http://foundeo.com/security/presentations/hardening-coldfusion.pdf Hardening servers is a blast! Everyone should do it. :Den -- Six is a number perfect

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Watts
By golly it worked!  Is the CFIDE/scripts directory the only one needed to be remapped? If you're using old-style CFFORM stuff with Java applets, you will need /CFIDE/classes as well. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Will Tomlinson
Richard Brain of ProCheckUp commented “This is a trivial attack which can be performed easily by a competent engineer; ProCheckUp thanks Adobe for consciously working with us to produce a patch which fixes the traversal attack. By performing a simple Google search for inurl:index.cfm,

RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread andy matthews
If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results. andy -Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:w...@wtomlinson.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:12 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches Richard Brain of ProCheckUp

RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
need to apply patches If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results. andy -Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:w...@wtomlinson.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:12 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches Richard Brain

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Mandel
-Original Message- From: andy matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:38 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results. andy -Original Message- From

Re: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches

2010-08-11 Thread Gerald Guido
Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: andy matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:38 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Millions of Coldfusion sites need to apply patches If you google for inurl:*.cfm You get 259 million results