CVE-2025-42978 — Insufficiently Secure Hostname Verification for Outbound TLS Connections in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java

CVE-2025-42978

Insufficiently Secure Hostname Verification for Outbound TLS Connections in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The widely used component that establishes outbound TLS connections in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java does not reliably match the hostname that is used for the connection against the wildcard hostname defined in the received certificate of remote TLS server. This might lead to the outbound connection being established to a possibly malicious remote TLS server and hence disclose information. Integrity and Availability are not impacted.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
SAP_SE / SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java	affected ENGINEAPI 7.50

CWE

CWE-940

References

https://me.sap.com/notes/3557179
https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

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