CVE-2021-40713

Adobe Experience Manager Improper Certificate Validation Could Lead to Man In The Middle Attack

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Sep 27, 2021
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Sep 8, 2021

Description

Adobe Experience Manager version 6.5.9.0 (and earlier) is affected by a improper certificate validation vulnerability in the cold storage component. If an attacker can achieve a man in the middle when the cold server establishes a new certificate, they would be able to harvest sensitive information.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Experience ManagerAdobe	6.5.9.0 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/experience-manager/apsb21-82.html

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