Adobe Experience Manager is widely used enterprise software; an SSRF allowing privilege escalation and internal pivoting can cause broad enterprise impact and attract public attention.
CVE-2026-81999
SSRF in Adobe AEM Forms JEE enabling privilege escalation
do firstUpgrade to a fixed release: 6.5.25 (AEMForms-6.5.0-0134 Hotfix), 6.5 LTS SP3.
Is CVE-2026-81999 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-81999 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.81% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-81999?
CVE-2026-81999 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.7. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-81999?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-81999, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-81999 affect?
CVE-2026-81999 affects Adobe Experience Manager Forms JEE. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-81999?
Apply vendor mitigations/patches, restrict SSRF targets, isolate affected instances and review logs
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
SSRF lets attackers access internal services and escalate privileges, enabling data access, lateral movement, and service compromise.
Immediate action required
- affected<= 6.5.25
- affected<= 6.5 LTS SP2
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- none
- automatable
- no
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 22 Sept 2026 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 22 Sept 2026CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none
- 22 Sept 2026Published · 1 day later
- 23 Sept 2026CVE record last updated · same day later
- 24 Sept 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 1 day later
- Advisoryhelpx.adobe.com /security/products/aem-forms/apsb26-151.html
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.