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Privilege Escalation in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source via Incorrect Authorization

IdentifiersCVE-2025-54267CWE-863· Incorrect Authorization

CVE-2025-54267 is an incorrect authorization vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Affected versions include Adobe Commerce 2.4.9-alpha2, 2.4.8-p2, 2.4.7-p7, 2.4.6-p12, 2.4.5-p14, 2.4.4-p15 and earlier; the supporting content also indicates Magento Open Source is affected in the corresponding release ranges. The flaw allows a low-privileged attacker to bypass intended authorization checks or security measures and obtain access to functionality or privileges that should be restricted to higher-privileged roles. The available information does not identify the specific vulnerable function or code path, but the issue is explicitly characterized by Adobe as an incorrect authorization weakness leading to privilege escalation without requiring user interaction.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows a low-privileged authenticated attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain elevated privileges, resulting in high integrity impact. In practical terms, this can permit unauthorized administrative or higher-trust actions within the affected e-commerce platform, undermining access control boundaries and potentially enabling broader platform compromise depending on the privileges obtained. Adobe’s broader advisory for the affected product line notes that exploitation of the patched vulnerabilities could enable security feature bypass, privilege escalation, and in some cases arbitrary code execution, but for CVE-2025-54267 specifically the provided information supports privilege escalation and security control bypass.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, restrict access to administrative and sensitive application areas, minimize privileges assigned to low-trust accounts, and closely monitor for suspicious privilege changes or unauthorized administrative actions. Limit exposure of management interfaces, disable unnecessary modules or features where operationally feasible, and ensure only trusted users retain elevated roles. These measures are compensating controls only and do not remove the underlying authorization flaw; vendor patches should be applied as soon as possible.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade affected Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source installations to a vendor-fixed release. The provided content indicates that vulnerable versions include 2.4.9-alpha2, 2.4.8-p2, 2.4.7-p7, 2.4.6-p12, 2.4.5-p14, 2.4.4-p15 and earlier, and that Packagist/magento/community-edition should be upgraded to 2.4.9-alpha3 or later. More generally, apply the security updates identified in Adobe bulletin APSB25-94 and move to the latest fixed versions specified by Adobe for Adobe Commerce, Adobe Commerce B2B, and Magento Open Source.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

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VendorProductType
AdobeCommerceapplication
AdobeCommerce B2bapplication
AdobeMagentoapplication

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2025-54267
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54267
MITRE CWE · CWE-863
Incorrect Authorization
Vendor Advisory
helpx.adobe.com/security/products/magento/apsb25-94.html