Medium severity · published Sep 10, 2020
CVE-2020-9743
AEM versions 6.5.5.0 (and below), 6.4.8.1 (and below), 6.3.3.8 (and below) and 6.2 SP1-CFP20 (and below) are affected by an HTML injection vulnerability in the content editor…
6.1
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
AEM versions 6.5.5.0 (and below), 6.4.8.1 (and below), 6.3.3.8 (and below) and 6.2 SP1-CFP20 (and below) are affected by an HTML injection vulnerability in the content editor component that allows unauthenticated users to craft an HTTP request that includes arbitrary HTML code in a parameter value. An attacker could then use the malicious GET request to lure victims to perform unsafe actions in the page (ex. phishing).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EM
Experience Manager · Adobe
6.3.0.0 through 6.3.3.8; 6.4.0.0 through 6.4.8.1; 6.5.0.0 through 6.5.5.0; 6.2.0.0; 6.2.0.0; 6.2.0.0; +18 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9743
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9743
Vendor Advisory
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb20-56.html
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