⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-15. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-11-05. 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..

CVE-2025-54253

Severity
10.0CRITICAL
EPSS
15.5%
top 5.33%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-10-15
Due 2025-11-05
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
KEV addedOct 15
Latest updateOct 16
KEV dueNov 5
CISA 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
Adobe Experience Manager | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)2025-08-05
GHSA
GHSA-7mcc-8f7p-x6v7: Adobe Experience Manager versions 62025-08-05
VulnCheck
Adobe Experience Manager Forms Code Execution Vulnerability2025

🔍Detection Rules

1
Suricata
ET WEB_SPECIFIC_APPS Adobe Experience Manager Forms Authentication Bypass (CVE-2025-54253)2025-08-19

📋Vendor Advisories

1
CISA
Adobe Experience Manager Forms Code Execution Vulnerability2025-10-15

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Bleepingcomputer
CISA: Maximum-severity Adobe flaw now exploited in attacks2025-10-16
Bleepingcomputer
Adobe issues emergency fixes for AEM Forms zero-days after PoCs released2025-08-05