Note: This blog post is from 2019. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
This is my part 2 post which follows onto the
Part 1, released the night of March 1, when the new CF updates were released as an emergency update.
If you've not yet read that, do that first, to get some basic info and needed context for what follows.
And if you HAVE already read part 1, if it was before Saturday morning, do go back and reread it. I had added some important info that I thought shouldn't wait to Part 2, which I knew could take me a while. See especially the sections there, "A brief introduction to the vulnerability and the fix", "Should you be worried?", and "What if you can't apply the update immediately, and can't wait for part 2?".
And my apologies for the delay in getting part 2 out. For various reasons, including related to additional research work I'm doing on this exploit beyond CF, I was unable to post this then. Better late than never, I hope. Indeed, I had listed quite a lot in Part 1 that I hoped to cover in a part 2. I don't want to delay getting this out any later, so I will get done today what I can and post that, and carry over into a part 3 (or beyond) whatever remains. There are some natural breaks, fortunately. Thanks for your patience.
Following are what I cover here in Part 2:
- More detail about the vulnerability and what was "fixed"
- Wouldn't an antivirus package on the server detect this sort of trojan?
- How to add further protection from it (especially if you may be unable to implement the update for some reason)
- Considering running a security scan of your CFML code
- Consider implementing a web application firewall
- How to prevent execution of the files used in the attack, if they may already be on your server
- Another benefit of applying the latest updates
- What about Lucee?
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