TechNote (Archived)

ColdFusion MX 7: Calling a CFX custom tag throws a 500 null error in a Security Sandbox

Issue

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Calling a CFX tag within a Security Sandbox throws a 500 null error in a browser. The following error gets written to the exception.log:

 [1]coldfusion.tagext.LibMissingException: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\..\lib\updates\CFXNeo.dll read)     at coldfusion.tagext.NativeCfx.<clinit>(NativeCfx.java:53)     at coldfusion.tagext.CfxTag.doStartTag(CfxTag.java:108)     at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTag(CfJspPage.java:1908) 

Reason

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This has been identified as Macromedia issue 59873.

Solution

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In the Security Sandbox definition, add Read access to thecf_root\lib\CFXNeo.dll file and thecf_root\lib\updates directory.

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