SAP Gateway Client up to SAP_GWFND 752 permission assignment
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in SAP Gateway Client up to SAP_GWFND 752. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes permission assignment. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-42997. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.
Details
A vulnerability has been found in SAP Gateway Client up to SAP_GWFND 752 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission assignment vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-732. The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Under certain conditions, SAP Gateway Client allows a high-privileged user to access restricted information beyond the scope of the application. Due to the possibility of influencing application behavior or performance through misuse of the exposed data, this may potentially lead to low impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The advisory is shared at me.sap.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-42997 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/13/2025).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-14350). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.
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: 5.6VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5
VulDB Base Score: 4.7
VulDB Temp Score: 4.5
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CNA Base Score: 6.6
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Exploiting
Class: Permission assignmentCWE: CWE-732 / CWE-275 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: PatchStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
04/16/2025 🔍05/13/2025 🔍
05/13/2025 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: sap.comAdvisory: me.sap.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-42997 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-42997
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-308389
EUVD: 🔍
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150716
Entry
Created: 05/13/2025 06:44Updated: 05/13/2025 13:55
Changes: 05/13/2025 06:44 (61), 05/13/2025 06:52 (1), 05/13/2025 13:55 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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