Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5, and 6.4 have an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• adobe experience manager6.4
• adobe experience manager6.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (adobe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Adobe Adobe Experience Manager

  • 6.5, and 6.4 versionsaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2025-49533Adobe Experience Manager (MS) | Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502)
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• CVE-2018-5006Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.4 and earlier have a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability.
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• CVE-2019-7964Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5, and 6.4 have an authentication bypass vulnerability.
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• CVE-2017-3108Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 and earlier has a malicious file execution vulnerability.
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• CVE-2019-8088Adobe Experience Manager versions 6.5, 6.4, 6.3 and 6.2 have a command injection vulnerability.
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• CVE-2021-40722AEM Forms Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.