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Adobe has released APSB25-08, the February 2025 security patch for Adobe Commerce (Magento). It covers all supported release lines and includes critical and important severity fixes. Apply it.
What is in it
APSB25-08 addresses a mix of severities:
Critical and important vulnerabilities in core Adobe Commerce functionality
Privilege escalation risks — issues that could let an account gain permissions it should not have
Moderate vulnerabilities covering the rest of the platform
The technical detail sits in Adobe's own APSB25-08 advisory, and your Adobe support account has the patch notes for your specific release line.
The privilege escalation issues are the ones to read first. Elevated permissions inside your admin reach everything that matters: administrative functions, customer data, transaction integrity. The critical fixes affect core functionality, so they apply to you regardless of how customised your build is.
Getting it live without drama
Test first. Apply the patch to a staging environment that mirrors production, custom extensions and modifications included.
Verify the journeys that earn money. Checkout, payment processing, admin functions, custom integrations.
Pick your window. Deploy to production when customer impact is lowest.
Watch it afterwards. System logs and transaction processing, for long enough to be confident.
If you run third-party extensions or custom code, that staging pass is not optional. Some extensions need their own update before they sit cleanly on the latest patch level.
The wider point
Adobe's security bulletins arrive on a predictable monthly cadence. Applied consistently, they keep your exposure to known vulnerabilities small. Applied occasionally, they turn into a large, risky catch-up project at the worst possible moment.
The answer is to make patching boring: automated patch testing and a rehearsed deployment path, run by your infrastructure team or by your agency, so each month's bulletin is a scheduled task rather than a debate.