CVE-2025-42966

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 the application.

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/3610892
• https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday