CVE-2025-42963

A critical vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Application server for Java Log Viewer enables authenticated administrator users to exploit unsafe Java object deserialization. Successful exploitation can lead to full operating system compromise, granting attackers complete control over the affected system. This results in a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application and host environment.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://me.sap.com/notes/3621771
• https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday