Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in SAPCAR

published 2025-07-08 last yr. modified 2026-11-03 6d ago also EUVD-2025-20329

cvss: 6.9; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits: 0; none known

SAPCAR allows an attacker logged in with high privileges to create a malicious SAR archive in SAPCAR. This could enable the attacker to exploit critical files and directory permissions without breaking signature validation, resulting in potential privilege escalation. This has high impact on integrity, but low impact on confidentiality and availability of the system.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: last yr. (2025-07-11)

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Affected products

SAP_SE SAPCAR

Classification

Weakness

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-42992
NVD CVE-2025-42992

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