Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe Experience Manager | APSB21-103

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB21-103

December 14, 2021 

2

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 arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass.

Affected product versions

Product Version Platform

 

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

AEM Cloud Service (CS)
All
6.5.10.0 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 (CS)
All 2 Release Notes

6.5.11.0 

All

2

AEM 6.5 Service Pack 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:

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 

CVE Number 

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

(CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

8.0

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

CVE-2021-43761

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CWE-611)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2021-40722

Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)

Security feature bypass

Important

6.5

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

CVE-2021-43762

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

(CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

8.0

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

CVE-2021-43764

Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

8.1

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



CVE-2021-43765

Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

8.1

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

CVE-2021-44176

Cross-site Scripting (Stored XSS) (CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Critical

8.1

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

CVE-2021-44177

Cross-site Scripting (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2021-44178

Updates to dependencies

Dependency
Vulnerability Impact
Affected Versions
xmlgraphics
Priviledge escalation

AEM CS  

AEM 6.5.9.0 and earlier 

ionetty
Priviledge escalation

AEM CS  

AEM 6.5.9.0 and earlier 

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank the following for reporting these issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers: 

  • BASF - CVE-2021-44178, CVE-2021-44177, CVE-2021-44176, CVE-2021-43765, CVE-2021-43764



 

Revisions

December 14th, 2021: Updated acknowledgment for CVE-2021-43762

December 16, 2021: Corrected priority level of bulletin to 2

December 29, 2021: Updated acknowledgement for CVE-2021-40722


For more information, visit https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html, or email PSIRT@adobe.com.

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