SAP CAR 7.22EXT/SAP_ 7.53 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in SAP CAR 7.22EXT/SAP_ 7.53. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-42970. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in SAP CAR 7.22EXT/SAP_ 7.53. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

SAPCAR improperly sanitizes the file paths while extracting SAPCAR archives. Due to this, an attacker could craft a malicious SAPCAR archive containing directory traversal sequences. When a high privileged victim extracts this malicious archive, it is then processed by SAPCAR on their system, causing files to be extracted outside the intended directory and overwriting files in arbitrary locations. This vulnerability has a high impact on the integrity and availability of the application with no impact on confidentiality.

It is possible to read the advisory at me.sap.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-42970 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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• SAP

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• CAR

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• 7.22EXT
• SAP_ 7.53

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.sap.com/

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