CVE-2023-22256
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.15.0 and earlier are affected by a URL Redirection to Untrusted Site vulnerability (Open Redirect). The vulnerability was discovered and assigned CVE-2023-22256, with the initial record creation date of December 19, 2022. This security issue affects Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Service versions prior to 2023.1.0 (Adobe Advisory, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (CWE-601) issue. According to the CVSS 3.1 scoring system, it has received a base score of 5.4 (Medium severity) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires network access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and user interaction for successful exploitation (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to redirect users to malicious websites. The impact is characterized by low confidentiality and integrity breaches, with no impact on availability. The cross-origin nature of the vulnerability (indicated by the 'S:C' in the CVSS vector) suggests potential impacts across security boundaries (Adobe Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has addressed this vulnerability by releasing version 6.5.16.0 for Experience Manager and version 2023.1.0 for Experience Manager Cloud Service. Users are advised to update to these or later versions to mitigate the vulnerability (Adobe Advisory).

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