Variable SERVERNAME is undefined in CFIDE after applying security patch for APSB09-12

Report · Sep 01, 2009

We attempted to apply the hotfixes available for ColdFusion and JRun released August 17, 2009 on our ColdFusion v8.0.1 and now are not able to connect to the ColdFusion administrator page.

This is the link to the securty update:

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-12.html

We receive the login screen, enter our user/pass and are then presented with the following error message:

The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.
Please contact the website administrator.

The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes.

Error Occurred While Processing Request

Variable SERVERNAME is undefined.

The error occurred in index.cfm: line 22

-1 : Unable to display error's location in a CFML template.

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Browser	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Remote Address	127.0.0.1
Referrer	http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
Date/Time	01-Sep-09 04:59 PM

Stack Trace

at cfindex2ecfm274406133.runPage(E:\cf8_final\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm:22)

coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedVariableException: Variable SERVERNAME is undefined.
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._get(CfJspPage.java:325)
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._get(CfJspPage.java:287)
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._autoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:1405)
     at cfindex2ecfm274406133.runPage(E:\cf8_final\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm:22)
     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:196)
     at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:370)
     at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
     at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:288)
     at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)
     at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
     at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86)
     at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)
     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:74)
     at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)
     at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
     at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)
     at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
     at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

Report · Sep 03, 2009

This was caused by the Adobe patch, we removed the patch and applied the newly provided hot fix 3 and that resolved the issue.