SAP ERP/S-4 HANA VAT Pro-Rata Reports privileges management

| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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| 6.0 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
Summary
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in SAP ERP and S-4 HANA. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component VAT Pro-Rata Reports. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-6188. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.
Details
A vulnerability was found in SAP ERP and S-4 HANA (Enterprise Resource Planning Software) (version now known) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component VAT Pro-Rata Reports. 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:
VAT Pro-Rata reports in SAP ERP (SAP_APPL versions 600, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 616 and SAP_FIN versions 617, 618, 700, 720, 730) and SAP S/4 HANA (versions 100, 101, 102, 103, 104) do not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user leading to Missing Authorization Check.
The weakness was disclosed 02/12/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-6188 since 01/08/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/13/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
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
Type
Vendor
Name
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.sap.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
VulDB Vector: 🔍VulDB Reliability: 🔍
CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0
VulDB Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍
NVD Base Score: 6.3
NVD Vector: 🔍
CNA Base Score: 6.3
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
Interest: 🔍Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
01/08/2020 🔍02/12/2020 🔍
02/13/2020 🔍
05/10/2025 🔍
Sources
Vendor: sap.comAdvisory: launchpad.support.sap.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2020-6188 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-6188
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-150107
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150716
Entry
Created: 02/13/2020 18:48Updated: 05/10/2025 23:09
Changes: 02/13/2020 18:48 (34), 02/13/2020 18:53 (12), 03/31/2024 08:10 (16), 03/31/2024 08:13 (19), 05/10/2025 23:09 (3)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103
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