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FKIE_CVE-2025-42999

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-13 01:15 - Updated: 2026-08-11 04:17

Severity

9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader is vulnerable when a privileged user can upload untrusted or malicious content which, when deserialized, could potentially lead to a compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the host system.

References

URL	Tags
cna@sap.com	https://me.sap.com/notes/3604119	Permissions Required
cna@sap.com	https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://onapsis.com/blog/active-exploitation-of-sap-vulnerability-cve-2025-31324/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-42999	US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	sap	netweaver	7.5

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CVE-2025-42999 (GCVE-0-2025-42999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 00:17 – Updated: 2026-08-11 03:55

Title

Insecure Deserialization in SAP NetWeaver (Visual Composer development server)

Summary

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: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-12 00:00 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

4 references

URL	Tags
https://me.sap.com/notes/3604119
https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource
https://onapsis.com/blog/active-exploitation-of-s…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
SAP_SE	SAP NetWeaver (Visual Composer development server)	Affected: VCFRAMEWORK 7.50

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