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CVE-2025-42890VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-42890: SAP_SE SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-Gui) · Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Affects SAP_SE SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-Gui)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 10.0 Critical.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
10.0Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 52% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Nov 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq 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.

What to do

AI-suggested

To mitigate CVE-2025-42890 effectively, organizations should take the following specific actions: 1) Immediately identify and inventory all instances of SAP SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-GUI) version 17.0 within their environment. 2) Monitor SAP security advisories closely for the release of official patches or updates addressing this vulnerability and apply them promptly once available. 3) In the absence of patches, restrict network access to the SQL Anywhere Monitor service by implementing strict firewall rules and network segmentation to limit exposure only to trusted management networks. 4) Employ application-layer access controls and authentication proxies to add an additional layer of authentication, compensating for the hard-coded credentials flaw. 5) Conduct thorough audits and monitoring of logs for any suspicious access attempts or anomalous behavior related to the SQL Anywhere Monitor service. 6) Consider deploying intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) with signatures or heuristics tailored to detect exploitation attempts targeting this vulnerability. 7) Educate system administrators and security teams about the risks associated with hard-coded credentials and encourage secure coding practices for future deployments. 8) Plan for migration to newer, more secure versions of the software that do not contain this vulnerability once they become available.

Description

SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-GUI) baked credentials into the code,exposing the resources or functionality to unintended users and providing attackers with the possibility of arbitrary code execution.This could cause high impact on confidentiality integrity and availability of the system.

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