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CVE-2025-42946

Directory Traversal vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management)

Published: Aug 12, 2025Updated: Aug 12, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-22
NVD MITRE
6.9CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.9%
Top 46.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Due to directory traversal vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management), an attacker with high privileges and access to a specific transaction and method in Bank Communication Management could gain unauthorized access to sensitive operating system files. This could allow the attacker to potentially read or delete these files hence causing a high impact on confidentiality and low impact on integrity. There is no impact on availability of the system.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:AAC:LPR:HUI:NS:CC:HI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:AAttack Vector
Adjacent
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management)SAP_SE
On-prem
Enterprise Software / erp
SAP S/4HANASAP
On-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / erp
sap_secommercialDEEnterprise Softwareaka sap businessobjects business intelligence platform, sap netweaver application server for abap
sapcommercialDEEnterprise Softwareaka sap ag

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://me.sap.com/notes/3614804
me.sap.com
https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday
url.sap
https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/knowledge-base/security-notes-news/august-2025.html
support.sap.com

Timeline

Published
Aug 12, 2025
Last Updated
Aug 12, 2025

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