Interesting (and really well written!) CF question on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/q/77915382/894061 I've no idea what's going on, so can't help. Wonder if anyone else might be able to.

I feel like I rand into something like that before. I feel like moving them out of the directory named "component" was the fix, since component was a reserved word or something.... That was /way/ back in CF9 though

This actually rang a bell with me too. They're using obfuscated names in their example, that said.

I've seen this issue with mappings. Like if they have an application mapping to folder that's relative, but then a page in a subfolder is hit the mapping evaluates to a different folder.