CVE-2025-42873

Summary

SAPUI5 (and OpenUI5) packages use outdated 3rd party libraries with known security vulnerabilities. When markdown-it encounters special malformed input, it fails to terminate properly, resulting in an infinite loop. This Denial of Service via infinite loop causes high CPU usage and system unresponsiveness due to a blocked processing thread. This vulnerability has no impact on confidentiality or integrity but has a high impact on system availability.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SAP_SESAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)SAP_UI 755affected
SAP_SESAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)756affected
SAP_SESAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)757affected
SAP_SESAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)758affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-405: CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References