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CVE-2025-54253

10, critical Known exploited

Adobe Experience Manager Forms Code Execution Vulnerability

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CVSS
10, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
88% higher than 99.7% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
5 Aug 2025a year ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 15 Oct 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 5 Nov 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23 and earlier are affected by a Misconfiguration vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security mechanisms and execute code. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction and scope is changed.

Details

Vendor
Adobe
Product
Adobe Experience Manager
Weakness
CWE-863 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
psirt@adobe.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 3

Exploit code 1

Advisories 2

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.