CVE-2025-42966
Published: 08 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-42966 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability in Sap (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 29.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-20343
Vulnerability details
SAP NetWeaver XML Data Archiving Service allows an authenticated attacker with administrative privileges to exploit an insecure Java deserialization vulnerability by sending a specially crafted serialized Java object. This could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of…
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the application.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing supplies malicious serialized objects, detecting unsafe deserialization and supporting corrective actions.
Evaluation of untrusted data handling (deserialization testing) reveals unsafe processing, which the required remediation process addresses.
Untrusted serialized data can be deserialized and observed inside the chamber, blocking gadget-chain exploitation outside the sandbox.
Validates or rejects untrusted serialized data before deserialization occurs.
Identifies and blocks malicious code introduced through deserialization of untrusted data at system boundaries.
Integrity verification of serialized information can detect tampering before deserialization occurs.
Provenance of associated data allows detection of untrusted sources before deserialization or processing occurs.