Bulletin ID
Last updated on
Sep 9, 2025
Security updates available for Adobe Experience Manager | APSB25-90
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Date Published |
Priority |
|---|---|---|
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APSB25-90 |
September 9, 2025 |
3 |
Summary
Adobe has released updates for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). These updates resolve vulnerabilities rated critical and important. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in security feature bypass.
Adobe is not aware of any exploits in the wild for any of the issues addressed in these updates.
Affected product versions
| Product | Version | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) |
AEM Cloud Service (CS) |
All |
6.5 LTS SP1 and earlier versions 6.5.23 and earlier versions |
All |
Solution
Adobe categorizes these updates with the following priority ratings and recommends users update their installation to the newest version:
Product |
Version |
Platform |
Priority |
Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) |
AEM Cloud Service Release 2025.9 | All | 3 | Release Notes |
| Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) | 6.5 LTS SP1 (GRANITE-61551 Hotfix) | All | 3 | Release Notes |
| Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) | 6.5.23 (GRANITE-61551 Hotfix) | All | 3 | Release Notes |
Note
Customers running on Adobe Experience Manager’s Cloud Service will automatically receive updates that include new features as well as security and functionality bug fixes.
Note
Experience Manager Security Considerations:
AEM as a Cloud Service Security Considerations
Anonymous Permission Hardening Package
Note
Please contact Adobe customer care for assistance with AEM versions 6.4, 6.3 and 6.2.
Vulnerability Details
| Vulnerability Category |
Vulnerability Impact |
Severity |
CVSS base score |
CVSS vector |
CVE Number |
| Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) | Security feature bypass | Critical | 7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | CVE-2025-54248 |
| Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) | Security feature bypass | Important | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | CVE-2025-54246 |
| Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) | Security feature bypass | Important | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | CVE-2025-54247 |
| Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CWE-918) | Security feature bypass | Important | 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | CVE-2025-54249 |
| Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) | Security feature bypass | Important | 4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | CVE-2025-54250 |
| XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) (CWE-91) | Security feature bypass | Important | 4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N | CVE-2025-54251 |
| Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79) | Security feature bypass | Important | 5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | CVE-2025-54252 |
Note
If a customer is using Apache httpd in a proxy with a non-default configuration, they may be impacted by CVE-2023-25690 - please read more here: https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Acknowledgments
Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
- Dylan Pindur and Adam Kues (Assetnote) - CVE-2025-54246, CVE-2025-54247, CVE-2025-54248, CVE-2025-54249, CVE-2025-54250, CVE-2025-54251, CVE-2025-54252
NOTE: Adobe has a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please check out https://hackerone.com/adobe
For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.
