SAP Business Connector path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in SAP Business Connector. It has been declared as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-42894. The attack is only possible within the local network. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SAP Business Connector (version now known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Due to a Path Traversal vulnerability in SAP Business Connector, an attacker authenticated as an administrator with adjacent access could read, write, overwrite, and delete arbitrary files on the host system. Successful exploitation could enable the attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the server, resulting in a complete compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system.

The advisory is shared for download at me.sap.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-42894 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/11/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

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VulDB Temp Score: 6.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Recommended: Patch
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Timelineinfo

04/16/2025 CVE reserved
11/11/2025 +209 days Advisory disclosed
11/11/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/11/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: sap.com

Advisory: me.sap.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-42894 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-42894
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-331792
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150716

Entryinfo

Created: 11/11/2025 07:45
Changes: 11/11/2025 07:45 (61)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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