Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-42909

Published
14 October 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 3.0
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0023 13th percentile
Risk Priority 23 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-42909 is a low-severity Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag (CWE-1004) vulnerability in Sap (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 3.0 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Steal Web Session Cookie (T1539); ranked at the 13th 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-23 (Session Authenticity) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A02:2025 Security Misconfiguration

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

SAP Cloud Appliance Library Appliances allows an attacker with high privileges to leverage an insecure S/4HANA default profile setting in an existing SAP CAL appliances to gain access to other appliances. This has low impact on confidentiality of the application,…

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integrity and availability is not impacted.

CWE(s)
CWE-1004

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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CVE-2025-53757Shared CWE-1004

Affected Assets

Sap
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SC-23 Session Authenticity good match

Proper implementation of session authenticity requires marking sensitive session cookies HttpOnly so that client scripts cannot access them.

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.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Broad SDLC practices catch cookie-handling defects via standards/testing (mostly forward) yet remain too general to guarantee this narrow flag setting is always enforced (partial reverse).

PR.AT-02 partial match
prevents

Role-based training can reduce the chance developers introduce missing HttpOnly flags but supplies no enforcement or detection, leaving essentially all of the implementation flaw's risk intact.

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.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect missing HttpOnly flags but does not prevent the weakness.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements can mandate HttpOnly on sensitive cookies.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly require the HttpOnly flag for sensitive cookies.

References