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ColdFusion Administrator Settings 
In this section several recommendations are made for ColdFusion server settings. It is important to 
understand that changes to some of these settings may affect how your website functions, and 
performs. Be sure to understand the implications of all settings before making any changes. 
Server Settings > Settings 
Setting 
Default 
Recommendation 
Description 
Timeout Requests 
after 
Checked / 60 Sec. 
Checked / 5 Sec. 
Set this value as low as possible. Any 
templates (such as scheduled tasks) 
that might take longer, should use 
the cfsetting tag. For example: 
<cfsetting 
requesttimeout="60"> 
Use UUID for 
cftoken 
Unchecked 
Checked 
The default cftoken values are 
sequential and make it fairly easy to 
hijack sessions by guessing a valid 
CFID / CFTOKEN pair. This setting is 
not necessarily required if J2EE 
session are enabled, however it 
doesn’t hurt to turn it on anyways. 
Disable CFC Type 
check 
Unchecked 
Unchecked 
Developers may rely on the 
argument types, enabling this 
setting might allow attackers to 
cause new exceptions in the 
application. This setting may be 
enabled if the developer(s) have 
built the application to account for 
this. 
Disable access to 
internal ColdFusion 
Java components 
Unchecked 
Checked 
The internal ColdFusion Java 
components may allow 
administrative duties to be 
performed.  
Some developers may write code 
that relies on these components. 
This practice should be avoided as 
these components are not 
documented. 
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