# CVE-2024-43731: Adobe Experience Manager | Improper Authorization (CWE-285)

> A low-privileged attacker can bypass security measures in Adobe Experience Manager to modify data integrity without user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 7 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2q92-jq5r-m2x3

## What is CVE-2024-43731?

CVE-2024-43731 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager, published on 10 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5.21 and earlier are affected by an Improper Authorization vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. A low-privileged attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass security measures and have a low impact on integrity. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Weakness: CWE-285 (Improper Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43731?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Adobe Experience Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-43731?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-43731 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-43731 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43731 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Experience Manager

- [CVE-2026-90532](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-90532/): Adobe Experience Manager | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-105895](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-105895/): Adobe Experience Manager | Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-19232](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-19232/): Adobe Experience Manager | Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2025-49533](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-49533/): Adobe Experience Manager (MS) | Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-40722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40722/): AEM Forms Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-43731 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-43731 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager, published on 10 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43731 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Adobe Experience Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43731/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43731/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43731
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43731
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43731

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43731/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.