CVE-2023-48441
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) versions 6.5.18 and earlier are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-48441. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 15, 2023, and affects both cloud service and on-premises deployments of the Adobe Experience Manager platform (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Access Control issue (CWE-284) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (Medium). The attack vector is network-accessible (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), and requires no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is unchanged (S:U) with low confidentiality impact (C:L) and no impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve a low-confidentiality impact within the application. The attack can be executed without requiring any user interaction, potentially exposing sensitive information to unauthorized parties (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update their Adobe Experience Manager installations to versions newer than 6.5.18 to mitigate this security issue (Adobe Advisory).

Additional resources


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