Mura ORM + Feed API = Awesomeness

Two of the most powerful features in Mura 7 are the improvements made to Mura ORM and the Feed API.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Ticket to ColdFusion Summit 2023

The Adobe ColdFusion Summit is coming up in October.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

CFWT Is Hiring: UI/UX Person

CFWT is looking to hire again.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Exploiting CVE-2017-11286 Six Years Later: XXE in ColdFusion via WDDX Packet

Introduction🎈🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎈Six years ago today, on September 12, 2017, Adobe released APSB17-30.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Technical Details for CVE-2023-29301: Adobe ColdFusion Access Control Bypass for a CFAdmin Authentication Component

BackgroundIn this post I'll be walking though CVE-2023-29301, which is an access control bypass / password brute force vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion that I reported to Adobe and was fixed on July 11, 2023 in Adobe Product Security Bulletin APSB23-40.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

cfscript cf*() functions are Custom Tags

I found an interesting discussion between the community and Adobe today regarding early cfscript functionality for tags.

From: Chris Tierney

Simpler Bootstrap accordions

Vertically collapsing accordion UI components are simple to implement these days using native HTML.

From: cfSimplicity

On ColdFusion, AES, and Padding Oracle Attacks: Hic Sunt Dracones

TL; DR: If you use AES-CBC (or another block cipher operating in CBC mode) to decrypt user-controlled ciphertext, validate the ciphertext with an HMAC or similar integrity check prior to decryption to avoid Padding Oracle vulnerabilities.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Adobe ColdFusion Log Verboseness

Server logs in ColdFusion are a must-have resource to help you tune, monitor, and troubleshoot your servers.

From: Chris Tierney

FortiGate 80F to Unifi Security Gateway Pro 4 IPSec Tunnel Issues

I have recently replaced an older Cisco ASA 5550 with a FortiGate 80F.

From: Chris Tierney

Into The Box 2023 Slides

I'm back from Houston Texas after another great Into the Box conference. Slides for my talk Taming the top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses can be found here. For code samples I used my Bank of Insecurity repository which is full of security weaknesses.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Why You Don't Want To Use CFMX_COMPAT Encryption

This is the first of what may be a couple of posts about my presentation from ColdFusion Summit East 2023, which was held in April in Washington, DC.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Copying AWS EC2 Tags to EBS Using PowerShell

These days when creating an EC2 instance in the AWS console UI, by default, the tags are duplicated across Elastic Block Service (EBS) and Elastic Network Interface (ENI) attached resources being created.

From: Chris Tierney

ColdFusion Summit East 2023 Recap

The 2023 CF Summit East Conference wrapped up yesterday — it was a fun, albeit short, trip. I’m already on a flight back hope; sadly no time for tourist things on this trip (tho my sushi dinner with Minh Vo yesterday was fantastic so I’ll take that as a win).

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Poor Man’s Storage Data Wipe On Windows 10/11

The usual person in the tech industry will inevitably have a storage medium you “must” secure before letting it out of your possession.

From: Chris Tierney

Be Aware of Mura CMS Security Issues

Mura CMS was a popular open-source content management system (CMS) written in ColdFusion.

From: Chris Tierney

Accessing Azure MariaDB server with Navicat

Database client Navicat doesn't seem to recognize MariaDB servers hosted on Azure.

From: cfSimplicity

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Mura CMS and Masa CMS (CVE-2022-47003 and CVE-2022-47002)

BackgroundMura CMS is a popular content management system written in ColdFusion/CFML.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Debloat Windows 11

Perform the following at your own risk.

From: Chris Tierney

Purchasing Adobe ColdFusion

Are you in the market or considering purchasing Adobe ColdFusion’s full or upgrade license? While you always have the option of going straight to Adobe, I recommend purchasing through a reseller.

From: Chris Tierney

A prototype is not a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a term that I hear used a lot, and the concept seems pretty simple. Yet it is too frequently misused in place of prototype by junior developers and non developers (management).

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Senior Developers vs Master Developers

We need to do away with the term senior developer in the software industry. Here is why I propose we start using the term Master Developer.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer