Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe Experience Manager | APSB23-18

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB23-18

March 14, 2023

3

Summary

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). These updates resolve vulnerabilities rated important and moderate.  Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and security feature bypass.  

Affected product versions

Product Version Platform
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
AEM Cloud Service (CS)
All
6.5.15.0  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 Release 2023.1
All 3 Release Notes
6.5.16.0
All

3

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 (Reflected XSS) (CWE-79)

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-22252

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

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-22253

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

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-22254

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22256

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22257

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22258

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22259

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22260

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22261

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22262

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22263

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22264

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22265

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)

Security feature bypass

Moderate

3.5

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

CVE-2023-22266

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

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-22269

Weak Cryptography for Passwords (CWE-261)

Privilege escalation

Important

5.3

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

CVE-2023-22271

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

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-21615

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

Arbitrary code execution

Important

5.4

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

CVE-2023-21616

Note:

If a customer is using Apache httpd in a proxy with a non-default configuration, they may be impacted by CVE-2023-25690 - please read more here: https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Note:

If a customer is using Apache httpd in a proxy with a non-default configuration, they may be impacted by CVE-2023-25690 - please read more here: https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Acknowledgments

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

  • Jim Green (green-jam) -- CVE-2023-22252, CVE-2023-22253, CVE-2023-22254, CVE-2023-22256, CVE-2023-22257, CVE-2023-22258, CVE-2023-22259, CVE-2023-22260, CVE-2023-22261, CVE-2023-22262, CVE-2023-22263, CVE-2023-22264, CVE-2023-22265, CVE-2023-22266, CVE-2023-22269, CVE-2023-22271, CVE-2023-21615, CVE-2023-21616

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

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