CVE-2025-42890 (GCVE-0-2025-42890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-11 00:15 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:46
VLAI
Title
Insecure key & Secret Management vulnerability in SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-Gui)
Summary
SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-GUI) baked credentials into the code,exposing the resources or functionality to unintended users and providing attackers with the possibility of arbitrary code execution.This could cause high impact on confidentiality integrity and availability of the system.
Severity
10 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-12 04:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SAP_SE SQL Anywhere Monitor (Non-Gui) Affected: SYBASE_SQL_ANYWHERE_SERVER 17.0
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