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Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

CVE-2025-42873

Medium
5.9/10

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SAPUI5 (and OpenUI5) packages use outdated 3rd party libraries with known security vulnerabilities.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.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

Software that does not appropriately monitor or control resource consumption can lead to adverse system performance.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published