Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-42937

Critical

Published: 14 October 2025

Published
14 October 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.5th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2025-42937, published on 2025-10-14, affects the SAP Print Service (SAPSprint) component. The vulnerability arises from insufficient validation of path information provided by users, enabling path traversal as described by CWE-35. This allows attackers to access the parent directory and overwrite system files, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), reflecting critical severity due to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network, requiring low complexity, no privileges, and no user interaction. Successful exploitation enables overwriting of system files, potentially compromising the application's security posture across all CIA triad aspects.

SAP advisories address mitigation via security note 3630595 at https://me.sap.com/notes/3630595, released as part of SAP Security Patch Day documented at https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday. Practitioners should review and apply these patches to affected SAP Print Service instances.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-35

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability is a path traversal in SAP Print Service allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to overwrite system files, directly enabling exploitation of a public-facing application.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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