CVE-2025-54247
📋 TL;DR
Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.23.0 and earlier contain an improper input validation vulnerability that allows low-privileged attackers to bypass security measures and gain unauthorized read access. This affects organizations using vulnerable AEM instances, potentially exposing sensitive content or configuration data.
💻 Affected Systems
- Adobe Experience Manager
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attacker gains unauthorized read access to sensitive content, configuration files, or user data stored in AEM repositories, potentially leading to data exposure or further privilege escalation.
Likely Case
Low-privileged user or attacker with basic access exploits the vulnerability to read content they shouldn't have access to, potentially exposing internal documents or configuration details.
If Mitigated
With proper network segmentation and access controls, impact is limited to unauthorized read access within the AEM application boundary.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires low-privileged access to the AEM instance. No public exploit code is currently available.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 6.5.24.0 or later
Vendor Advisory: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb25-90.html
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Download AEM 6.5.24.0 or later from Adobe's distribution portal. 2. Follow Adobe's upgrade documentation for your specific deployment. 3. Apply the Service Pack to both Author and Publish instances. 4. Test functionality after upgrade.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Restrict low-privileged user access
allTemporarily reduce permissions for low-privileged users to minimize attack surface while planning upgrade.
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict network segmentation to isolate AEM instances from untrusted networks
- Enhance monitoring and alerting for unusual read access patterns in AEM logs
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check AEM version via the Welcome screen or CRXDE Lite. Navigate to /system/console/status-productinfo in the OSGi console.Check Version:
curl -k https://<aem-host>:<port>/system/console/status-productinfo | grep 'Adobe Experience Manager'Verify Fix Applied:
Verify version is 6.5.24.0 or later using the same methods. Test that low-privileged users cannot access restricted content.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual read access patterns by low-privileged users
- Access to restricted content repositories
- Failed authorization attempts followed by successful reads
Network Indicators:
- Unusual volume of requests to content endpoints from low-privileged accounts
SIEM Query:
source="aem-access.log" (user="lowprivilege*" OR userrole="contributor") AND (response="200" OR response="304") AND uri_path CONTAINS "/content/dam/" | stats count by user, uri_path