Adobe has warned of a vital safety flaw in its Commerce and Magento Open Supply platforms that, if efficiently exploited, might permit attackers to take management of buyer accounts.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54236 (aka SessionReaper), carries a CVSS rating of 9.1 out of a most of 10.0. It has been described as an improper enter validation flaw. Adobe mentioned it is not conscious of any exploits within the wild.
“A possible attacker might take over buyer accounts in Adobe Commerce by means of the Commerce REST API,” Adobe mentioned in an advisory issued in the present day.
The problem impacts the next merchandise and variations –
Adobe Commerce (all deployment strategies):
- 2.4.9-alpha2 and earlier
- 2.4.8-p2 and earlier
- 2.4.7-p7 and earlier
- 2.4.6-p12 and earlier
- 2.4.5-p14 and earlier
- 2.4.4-p15 and earlier
Adobe Commerce B2B:
- 1.5.3-alpha2 and earlier
- 1.5.2-p2 and earlier
- 1.4.2-p7 and earlier
- 1.3.4-p14 and earlier
- 1.3.3-p15 and earlier
Magento Open Supply:
- 2.4.9-alpha2 and earlier
- 2.4.8-p2 and earlier
- 2.4.7-p7 and earlier
- 2.4.6-p12 and earlier
- 2.4.5-p14 and earlier
Customized Attributes Serializable module:
Adobe, along with releasing a hotfix for the vulnerability, mentioned it has deployed net utility firewall (WAF) guidelines to guard environments in opposition to exploitation makes an attempt which will goal retailers utilizing Adobe Commerce on Cloud infrastructure.
“SessionReaper is likely one of the extra extreme Magento vulnerabilities in its historical past, corresponding to Shoplift (2015), Ambionics SQLi (2019), TrojanOrder (2022), and CosmicSting (2024),” e-commerce safety firm Sansec mentioned.
The Netherlands-based agency mentioned it efficiently reproduced one potential approach to exploit CVE-2025-54236, however famous that there are different potential avenues to weaponize the vulnerability.
“The vulnerability follows a well-recognized sample from final yr’s CosmicSting assault,” it added. “The assault combines a malicious session with a nested deserialization bug in Magento’s REST API.”
“The precise distant code execution vector seems to require file-based session storage. Nevertheless, we suggest retailers utilizing Redis or database classes to take fast motion as effectively, as there are a number of methods to abuse this vulnerability.”
Adobe has additionally shipped fixes to comprise a vital path traversal vulnerability in ColdFusion (CVE-2025-54261, CVSS rating: 9.0) that would result in an arbitrary file system write. It impacts ColdFusion 2021 (Replace 21 and earlier), 2023 (Replace 15 and earlier), and 2025 (Replace 3 and earlier) on all platforms.
