SAP Business Client 6.5/7.0 Integrity Check privileges management

| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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| 5.9 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
Summary
A vulnerability has been found in SAP Business Client 6.5/7.0 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Integrity Check. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-6228. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.
Details
A vulnerability was found in SAP Business Client 6.5/7.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Integrity Check. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
SAP Business Client, versions 6.5, 7.0, does not perform necessary integrity checks which could be exploited by an attacker under certain conditions to modify the installer.
The weakness was shared 04/14/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-6228 since 01/08/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/27/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
Vendor
Name
Version
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.sap.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9
VulDB Base Score: 5.0
VulDB Temp Score: 5.0
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VulDB Reliability: 🔍
NVD Base Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 5.3
CNA Vector (SAP SE): 🔍
CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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ATT&CK: 🔍
Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
01/08/2020 🔍04/14/2020 🔍
04/15/2020 🔍
05/27/2025 🔍
Sources
Vendor: sap.comAdvisory: launchpad.support.sap.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2020-6228 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-6228
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-153149
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150716
Entry
Created: 04/15/2020 08:30 AMUpdated: 05/27/2025 09:00 PM
Changes: 04/15/2020 08:30 AM (35), 04/15/2020 08:35 AM (11), 05/19/2024 09:32 AM (16), 05/19/2024 09:33 AM (19), 05/09/2025 03:43 AM (3), 05/27/2025 09:00 PM (6)
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