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When will Adobe provide a hotfix for Tomcat 9

  • February 16, 2022
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Will Adobe provide a Coldfusion 2018 hotfix to address vulnerability in Tomcat 9? We currently have version 9.0.50. See CVE-2021-42340.

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    Correct answer Charlie Arehart

    Yes, they will. They always do.  What we do NOT know (nor will they tell us) is WHEN they will do it.

     

    We can reasonably expect it will be in the next CF update, update 14 for CF2018 and update 4 for CF2021, which should include as well lots of CF bug fixes (that have remained even through the last update, which addressed only log4j vulns), and perhaps they will also remove any remaining reliance on log4j1.

     

    But they don't announce in advance when those come out. It could be Friday, it could be next month. It is indeed lamentable, as there have been some known Tomcat issues for many months. (And inevitably, there will be new ones, and we will again be stuck awaiting their update to CF, as WE cannot update the Tomcat that underlies CF. Only they can, at least reliably.)

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    BKBK
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    February 18, 2022

    Adobe has confirmed that this is a bug. So it is on the conveyor-belt. See https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4212653

     

    BKBK
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    February 19, 2022

    Oh, you should add your vote to the bug ticket. It might help expedite matters.

    Charlie Arehart
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    Charlie ArehartCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    February 16, 2022

    Yes, they will. They always do.  What we do NOT know (nor will they tell us) is WHEN they will do it.

     

    We can reasonably expect it will be in the next CF update, update 14 for CF2018 and update 4 for CF2021, which should include as well lots of CF bug fixes (that have remained even through the last update, which addressed only log4j vulns), and perhaps they will also remove any remaining reliance on log4j1.

     

    But they don't announce in advance when those come out. It could be Friday, it could be next month. It is indeed lamentable, as there have been some known Tomcat issues for many months. (And inevitably, there will be new ones, and we will again be stuck awaiting their update to CF, as WE cannot update the Tomcat that underlies CF. Only they can, at least reliably.)

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
    retrocaneAuthor
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    February 17, 2022

    Thank you.