Vulnerability detail

Tenable Blog · Apr 25, 2025

SAP has released out-of-band patch to address CVE-2025-31324, a critical zero-day vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver that has been exploited by threat actors. Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply patches as soon as possible.BackgroundOn April 22, ReliaQuest published details of their investigation of exploit activity in SAP NetWeaver servers. Initially it was unclear if their discovery was a new vulnerability or the abuse of CVE-2017-9844, a vulnerability that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or arbitrary code execution. ReliaQuest reported their findings to SAP and on April 24, SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, a critical missing authorization check vulnerability with the highest severity CVSS score of 10.0.CVEDescriptionCVSSv3VPRCVE-2025-31324SAP NetWeaver Unauthenticated File Upload Vulnerability10.08.1*Please note: Tenable’s Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) scores are calculated nightly. This blog post was published on April 25 and reflects VPR at that time.AnalysisCVE-2025-31324 is an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability affecting the Metadata Uploader component of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload malicious files which can be used by an attacker to achieve code execution. The flaw is the result of missing authorization checks to the “/developmentserver/metadatauploader” endpoint. According to ReliaQuest, this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day by threat actors who have abused the flaw to upload malicious web shells to affected hosts. These webshells were used to deploy malware and establish communications with command and control (C2) servers.Proof of conceptAt the time this blog was published, no proof-of-concept (PoC) code had been published for CVE-2025-31324. If a public PoC exploit becomes available, we anticipate a variety of attackers will attempt to leverage this flaw in their attacks as SAP products are…

TheHackerNews · Apr 25, 2025

Threat actors are likely exploiting a new vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver to upload JSP web shells with the goal of facilitating unauthorized file uploads and code execution.  "The exploitation is likely tied to either a previously disclosed vulnerability like CVE-2017-9844 or an unreported remote file inclusion (RFI) issue," ReliaQuest said in a report published this week. The cybersecurity