CVE-2014-2865

high

Published 2014-04-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

PaperThin CommonSpot before 7.0.2 and 8.x before 8.0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a '\0' character, as demonstrated by using this character within a pathname on the drive containing the web root directory of a ColdFusion installation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
paperthin	commonspot_content_server	`{"endIncluding":"7.0.1"}`
paperthin	commonspot_content_server	`8.0.0`
paperthin	commonspot_content_server	`8.0.1`
paperthin	commonspot_content_server	`8.0.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.