Adobe Security Bulletin

Security updates available for Adobe Experience Manager | APSB23-43

Bulletin ID

Date Published

Priority

APSB23-43

September 12, 2023

3

Summary

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). These updates resolve vulnerabilities rated important.  Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution.

Affected product versions

Product Version Platform
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
AEM Cloud Service (CS)
All
6.5.17.0 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 2023.8
All 3 Release Notes
6.5.18.0
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-2023-38214

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-2023-38215

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-2023-38214, CVE-2023-38215

NOTE: Adobe has a private, invite-only, bug bounty program with HackerOne. If you are interested in working with Adobe as an external security researcher, please fill out this form for next steps.


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

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