SAP GUI 8.00 on Windows unnecessary privileges

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A vulnerability has been found in SAP GUI 8.00 on Windows and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in unnecessary privileges. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-42943. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in SAP GUI 8.00 on Windows. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unnecessary privileges vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-250. The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

SAP GUI for Windows may allow the leak of NTML hashes when specific ABAP frontend services are called with UNC paths. For a successful attack, the attacker needs developer authorization in a specific Application Server ABAP to make changes in the code, and the victim needs to execute by using SAP GUI for Windows. This could trigger automatic NTLM authentication, potentially exposing hashed credentials to an attacker. As a result, it has a high impact on the confidentiality.

The advisory is shared at me.sap.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-42943 since 04/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for 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 $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/12/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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• SAP

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• GUI

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• 8.00

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.sap.com/

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