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I am going to attempt to keep this page updated with the latest ColdFusion Security Updates and Hotfixes published by Adobe. This will allow me to update this page as more info becomes available about updates....

Here’s something I learned re-learned recently: you can pass negative values into the left() and right() functions in CFML. Thanks to John Whish for pointing this out in a pull request on cfdocs.org....

Last week's Adobe ColdFusion security update disabled searchImplicitScopes by default. Prior to that update, and for the past twenty five years, ColdFusion would search through the all the possible scopes until it found a matching variable....

Adobe has published a ColdFusion Security Hotfix APSB24-14 today which describes "a critical vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read"....

Last week security researchers from Project Discovery published details on three Lucee vulnerabilities:...

A few months ago I was on a mission to remove some of the old broken links on my blog. I started blogging back in 2002, so many of the sites that I linked to twenty years ago were no longer active, or no longer under the same ownership....

Removing the Server Header as of IIS 10 (the version of IIS installed by default on Windows Server 2016, 2019 or 2022) is now much easier than it had been with prior versions of IIS....

When setting up a server for training purposes I wanted to create a self signed certificate for app1.example.com and trust it in Edge on Windows Server 2022....

I ran into a really strange problem today, whenever I would write a file it would show up as empty on my file system....

The Adobe ColdFusion Summit is coming up in October. I will be speaking at the conference, and my company Foundeo is also one of the conference sponsors....

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....

Today I needed to get the time that a file was created from within some CFML code. I had first thought that cfdirectory or directoryList would return this, but it only returns the date the a file was modified, not the date that it was created....