CVE-2025-42971 Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAPCAR
A memory corruption flaw in SAPCAR allows attackers to cause out-of-bounds reads and writes via malicious archives, leading to unauthorized file extraction or overwriting.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-42971?
CVE-2025-42971 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in SAP_SE SAPCAR, published on 8 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in SAPCAR allowing an attacker to craft malicious SAPCAR archives. When a high privileged victim extracts this malicious archive, it gets processed by SAPCAR on their system, resulting in out-of-bounds memory read and write. This could lead to file extraction and file overwrite outside the intended directories. This vulnerability has low impact on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the application.
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-42971?
How do I fix CVE-2025-42971?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-42971 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2025-42971 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-42971 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vpw2-377f-3mm6.