CVE-2025-54250
Adobe Experience Manager vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23.0 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability (CVE-2025-54250) that was disclosed on September 09, 2025. The vulnerability affects both standard installations and AEM Cloud Service versions up to 2025.8.0 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.9 (Medium). The attack vector is Network-based (AV:N) with Low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring High privileges (PR:H) and No user interaction (UI:N). The scope is Unchanged (S:U) with No impact on confidentiality (C:N), High impact on integrity (I:H), and No impact on availability (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could result in a security feature bypass, allowing a high-privileged attacker to bypass security measures and gain unauthorized write access to the system (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 6.5.23.0. This applies to both standard installations and AEM Cloud Service deployments (Adobe Advisory).

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