CVE-2025-42876VulnerabilityPublished 9 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-42876: SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud (Financials General Ledger) · Asymmetric Resource Consumption

Affects SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud (Financials General Ledger)Source CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.1 High.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

7.1High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 22% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 9 Dec 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
SAP_SE SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud (Financials General Ledger)	Affected =105 =106 =107 =108 =109	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-42876, European organizations should immediately review and tighten role-based access controls within SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud, ensuring that users are restricted strictly to their authorized company codes. Conduct thorough audits of user permissions and cross-company code access rights to detect and remediate any over-privileged accounts. Implement continuous monitoring and alerting for unusual access patterns or document modifications across company codes. Apply SAP-provided patches or security updates as soon as they become available, even if no exploits are currently known. Consider deploying additional compensating controls such as SAP Security Audit Logs and SAP Enterprise Threat Detection to identify suspicious activities early. Educate SAP administrators and users about the risks of privilege escalation and enforce the principle of least privilege. Regularly test and validate authorization configurations in non-production environments to prevent similar authorization bypass issues. Finally, coordinate with SAP support and security teams to stay informed about updates and advisories related to this vulnerability.

Description

Due to a Missing Authorization Check vulnerability in SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud (Financials General Ledger), an authenticated attacker with authorization limited to a single company code could read sensitive data and post or modify documents across all company codes. Successful exploitation could result in a high impact to confidentiality and a low impact to integrity, while availability remains unaffected.

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2025-42876 can be substantial, especially for multinational corporations and financial institutions using SAP S/4 HANA Private Cloud. The ability for an attacker with limited access to escalate privileges and access or modify data across all company codes threatens the confidentiality of sensitive financial information, potentially leading to data breaches, regulatory non-compliance (e.g., GDPR violations), and financial fraud. The integrity impact, while lower, could result in unauthorized financial postings that distort accounting records, affecting financial reporting accuracy and audit outcomes. Although availability is not impacted, the reputational damage and regulatory penalties from data exposure and financial manipulation could be severe. Given the critical role of SAP in enterprise resource planning and financial operations, exploitation could disrupt business processes and erode stakeholder trust. European organizations must consider the regulatory environment, where data protection and financial integrity are heavily scrutinized, increasing the urgency to remediate this vulnerability.

CWE-405Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) (opens in a new tab)
Class weakness
The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."
Architecture and Design
An application must make resources available to a client commensurate with the client's access level.
Architecture and Design
An application must, at all times, keep track of allocated resources and meter their usage appropriately.
System Configuration
Consider disabling resource-intensive algorithms on the server side, such as Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 16 Dec 2025, 05:03 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-405

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