What is CVE-2021-42069?

CVE-2021-42069 is a low-severity vulnerability in SAP 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-12-14.

How severe is CVE-2021-42069?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in SAP 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer

CVE-2021-42069

When a user opens manipulated Tagged Image File Format (.tif) file received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer - version 9.0, the application crashes and becomes temporarily unavailable to the user until restart of the application

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2021-12-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

SAP 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer — versions 9
SAP Se 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer — versions < 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

launchpad.support.sap.com/ (Permissions Required)
wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PSR/SAP+Security+Patch+Day+-+December+2021 (Vendor Advisory)
www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1551/ (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-42069?: CVE-2021-42069 is a low-severity vulnerability in SAP 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2021-12-14.
How severe is CVE-2021-42069?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.