CVE-2025-42873 (GCVE-0-2025-42873)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 02:14 – Updated: 2025-12-09 16:40
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Title
Denial of Service (DoS) in SAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)
Summary
SAPUI5 (and OpenUI5) packages use outdated 3rd party libraries with known security vulnerabilities. When markdown-it encounters special malformed input, it fails to terminate properly, resulting in an infinite loop. This Denial of Service via infinite loop causes high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness due to a blocked processing thread. This vulnerability has no impact on confidentiality or integrity but has a high impact on system availability.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-09 16:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption
Assigner
sap CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 117 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SAP_SE SAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component) Affected: SAP_UI 755
Affected: 756
Affected: 757
Affected: 758
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