Description

Adobe Experience Manager is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user, potentially gaining elevated access or control over the victim's account or session. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. Scope is changed.

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  "score": "9.9",
  "pubDate": "2026-10-13T20:18:04.200Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-10-13T20:18:04.200Z",
  "executiveSummary": "An Incorrect Authorization vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Experience Manager, presenting a critical security risk to enterprise content management infrastructure. The vulnerability stems from a failure within the application's access control architecture to properly validate authorization states before processing privileged requests. This architectural flaw allows remote adversaries to bypass access boundaries and achieve arbitrary code execution within the security context of the target user or underlying system process.\nExploitation of this vulnerability requires zero user interaction, making it highly susceptible to automated exploitation and targeted attack campaigns. Because the security scope of the vulnerability is changed, successful exploitation allows an attacker to breach the immediate authorization boundary of Adobe Experience Manager and potentially gain elevated access or control over victim accounts, active user sessions, and connected enterprise assets. Consequently, this flaw poses severe implications for data confidentiality, system integrity, and service availability across affected environments.",
  "technicalDetails": "The root cause of this vulnerability resides within the authorization enforcement mechanisms of Adobe Experience Manager. When incoming HTTP requests target specific administrative functionalities, servlets, or OSGi components, the application fails to correctly verify whether the requesting entity possesses the required permissions. This incomplete or flawed authorization check permits unauthorized requests to reach internal application logic that should strictly be restricted to authenticated and elevated security contexts.\nBy constructing specially crafted network requests, an adversary can bypass privilege checks and force the application engine to process unauthorized commands. This failure in access control leads directly to arbitrary code execution. The executed code runs with the privileges of the active session or the process identity assigned to the Adobe Experience Manager application instance. The detailed step-by-step attack flow unfolds as follows:\n1. Endpoint Identification: The attacker identifies exposed endpoints or handlers within Adobe Experience Manager that perform privilege-sensitive operations or process user-controlled inputs.\n2. Authorization Bypass: The attacker transmits a tailored request to the target endpoint without supplying valid high-privilege authorization credentials. Due to incorrect authorization validation logic, the server fails to reject the unprivileged request.\n3. Arbitrary Code Execution: The server executes the request payload, enabling the attacker to execute arbitrary system commands or code in the context of the running application user.\n4. Post-Exploitation and Scope Change: With arbitrary code execution achieved, the attacker leverages the changed security scope to manipulate victim accounts, hijack active user sessions, escalate access controls, or pivot to adjacent internal systems connected to the host.\nA crucial parameter of this vulnerability is the change in scope (Scope: Changed). This indicates that the security impact extends beyond the immediate execution environment of the Adobe Experience Manager component, enabling an attacker to compromise host resources, underlying databases, or integrated directory services. Furthermore, because exploitation requires no user interaction (UI:None), an attacker can execute this vector remotely, silently, and asynchronously against vulnerable instances."
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