CVE-2025-42928 (GCVE-0-2025-42928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 02:15 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
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Title
Deserialization Vulnerability in SAP jConnect - SDK for ASE
Summary
Under certain conditions, a high privileged user could exploit a deserialization vulnerability in SAP jConnect to launch remote code execution. The system may be vulnerable when specially crafted input is used to exploit the vulnerability resulting in high impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the system.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-10 04:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
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 SAP jConnect - SDK for ASE Affected: SYBASE_SOFTWARE_DEVELOPER_KIT 16.0.4
Affected: 16.1
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