Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake: Another Adobe Mess

Right, listen up. CISA – those clowns over at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – have flagged a critical vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). A perfect 10.0 CVSS score, meaning it’s as bad as they get. Apparently, some idiot can remotely execute code on your system just by getting you to look at a maliciously crafted template. Seriously? Templates?!

It’s an authentication bypass issue in the AEM component that allows attackers to basically waltz right in and do whatever the hell they want. And guess what? It’s already being actively exploited. Like, people are getting owned *right now*. The flaw affects a bunch of versions – check your deployments if you’re stupid enough to still be running this garbage.

Adobe released patches in September (of course they did, after the bleeding started), so update. Now. Unless you enjoy cleaning up hacked systems and explaining things to your boss. Don’t come crying to me when your entire CMS is compromised because you couldn’t be bothered to apply a security update.

Honestly, I swear, Adobe products are just magnets for vulnerabilities. It’s like they *try* to make them insecure. Patches are available, go install them before some script kiddie ruins your week.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/cisa-flags-adobe-aem-flaw-with-perfect.html

Related Anecdote: I once had to deal with a company that hadn’t patched their Adobe Reader in *five years*. Five years! They were running a version so old, it still thought Internet Explorer was cutting edge. Naturally, they got hit with ransomware. Spent three days rebuilding their entire network. Three days I’ll never get back. And you know what the IT manager said? “We didn’t want to break anything.” Yeah, well, *this* broke everything, pal.

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