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Adobe Experience Manager Forms on JEE pre-auth RCE disclosed with PoC before Adobe's out-of-band fix (CVE-2025-54253)

CVE-2025-54253, CVE-2025-54254Critical, CVSS 10.0In CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 15 Oct 2025

  • Exploited after a fix existed
FixedFixed for every supported version 7 days after the first public report.

Response

Silence
7d
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Exposure
7d
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Follow-through
7d
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  • Vendor silent
  • Vendor statement, no fix
  • Fixed for some versions
  • Fixed when disclosed
  • Date only, no time of day

Timeline and evidence

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  1. First public report

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    Searchlight Cyber: Struts Devmode in 2025? Critical Pre-Auth Vulnerabilities in Adobe Experience Manager FormsCuratedQuote verified

    July 29, 2025

    Searchlight published the details after its 90-day deadline: 'The remaining two vulnerabilities, including the authentication bypass to RCE chain via Struts2 devmode (SL-AEM-FORMS-1) and the XXE within AEM Forms web services (SL-AEM-FORMS-2), do not have publicly available patches or remediation advice.'

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    CVE.org record CVE-2025-54253ClaimedQuote verified5 Aug 2025, 16:53 UTC

    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

    CVE record published.

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    Bluesky postClaimedQuote not checked yet5 Aug 2025, 17:10 UTC

    You can now share your thoughts on vulnerability CVE-2025-54253 in Vulnerability-Lookup:

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    Mastodon postClaimedQuote not checked yet6 Aug 2025, 09:03 UTC

    CVE Alert: CVE-2025-54253 - https://www. redpacketsecurity.com/cve_aler t_cve-2025-54253/ # OSINT # ThreatIntel # CyberSecurity # cve_2025_54253

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    CISA KEV (CVE-2025-54253)ClaimedQuote verified15 Oct 2025

    Adobe Experience Manager Forms Code Execution Vulnerability

    Added to CISA's KEV catalog on 2025-10-15.

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  2. Vendor statement

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    Adobe security bulletin APSB25-82 (Wayback capture 2025-08-05 17:47 UTC)CuratedQuote verified

    Adobe is aware that CVE-2025-54253 and CVE-2025-54254 have a publicly available proof-of-concept.

    Bulletin dated 'August 5, 2025'; Wayback captured it live at 2025-08-05 17:47 UTC. It is an out-of-band bulletin (not on Adobe's monthly Patch Tuesday, which was 2025-08-12).

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  3. First workaround

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  4. First fix

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    Adobe security bulletin APSB25-82 (Wayback capture 2025-08-05 17:47 UTC)CuratedQuote verified

    August 5, 2025

    Fixed version per the bulletin: AEM Forms on JEE 6.5.0-0108.

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    Searchlight Cyber: Struts Devmode in 2025? Critical Pre-Auth Vulnerabilities in Adobe Experience Manager FormsCuratedQuote verified5 Aug 2025

    5th August 2025: Adobe publishes a security bulletin with fixes for the remaining vulnerabilities

    The same post's inline update is headed 'Update August 6, 2025'; the timeline entry and Adobe's bulletin both say 5 August.

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  5. Fixed for all versions

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    Adobe security bulletin APSB25-82 (Wayback capture 2025-08-05 17:47 UTC)CuratedQuote verified

    6.5.23.0 and earlier

    Only one affected product line (AEM Forms on JEE 6.5), fixed by 6.5.0-0108 in this bulletin.

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Affected products

  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms on JEE 6.5.23.0 and earlier
How we built this timeline

Selected as a patch-day exception: details and proof-of-concept became public (29 Jul 2025) a week before Adobe's out-of-band fix (5 Aug 2025), so 'disclosed and fixed in the same release' would hide a 7-day exposure. Reported to Adobe on 28 Apr 2025 per Searchlight's timeline.

Exploitation came later: CISA added CVE-2025-54253 to KEV on 15 Oct 2025; Adobe's bulletin (capture of 21 Oct 2025) still says 'Adobe is not aware of these issues being exploited in the wild.' Grouping: CVE-2025-54254 (XXE, CVSS 8.6) is in the same bulletin; only 54253 is in KEV.

A third bug from the same report, CVE-2025-49533, was patched earlier and is not part of this incident. CVSS 10.0 from Adobe. helpx.adobe.com returns 403 to non-browser user agents, so a Wayback capture is cited.

R1 check (correction pass 23 Oct 2026): this file matched 'bypass' only because of the bug type ('authentication bypass to RCE chain'). Adobe has not described the 5 Aug 2025 fix as incomplete: the bulletin's Wayback captures of 21 Oct 2025 and 21 Sep 2026 still list 6.5.0-0108 as the fixed version, with no later bulletin or revision for these CVEs, so First fix stays 5 Aug 2025.

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