Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2025-42876 is a high-severity Amplification (CWE-405) vulnerability in Sap (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Network Denial of Service (T1498); ranked at the 22th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SC-6 (Resource Availability) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-201851
Vulnerability Data
Due to a Missing Authorization Check vulnerability in SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud (Financials General Ledger), an authenticated attacker with authorization limited to a single company code could read sensitive data and post or modify documents across all company codes.…
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Successful exploitation could result in a high impact to confidentiality and a low impact to integrity, while availability remains unaffected.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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- 6 hardening rules · 3 OS baselines
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-5 directly requires mechanisms to limit the effects of asymmetric resource exhaustion attacks such as amplification DoS.
SC-6 enforces resource quotas and priority allocation that reduce the impact of unauthenticated or low-effort resource requests.
Least-functionality disables unnecessary services or features that could be leveraged for amplification.
SC-7 boundary controls can filter or rate-limit traffic patterns that enable amplification without equivalent client work.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Resilience mechanisms such as rate limiting and load balancing directly constrain asymmetric resource use.
Capacity planning and monitoring maintain availability headroom against amplification attacks.
Network monitoring detects amplification traffic patterns but does not itself limit asymmetric consumption.
Runtime resource monitoring can surface excessive consumption yet does not enforce authorization or work proofs.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Stress-testing and demand-reduction tactics (e.g., bandwidth throttling) blunt amplification vectors that would otherwise let an attacker multiply resource consumption through a single request.
Hardening callouts derived
Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).
Oracle Linux 8 (2 rules)
- V-248553 OL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405
- V-248552 OL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405
Oracle Linux 9 (2 rules)
- V-271709 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405
- V-271710 OL 9 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405
RHEL 8 (2 rules)
- V-230244 RHEL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic terminate after becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405
- V-244525 RHEL 8 must be configured so that all network connections associated with SSH traffic are terminated after 10 minutes of becoming unresponsive. prevents CWE-405