Advisory

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SAP Note 3158815 was released on 14.06.2022 and deals with "[CVE-2022-31595] Privilege escalation vulnerability in SAP Financial Consolidation" within SAP Financial Consolidation. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve missing authorization check with a medium potential for exploitation in component EPM-BFC-PRO.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.

Missing authority checks are still the most common security defect related to authorizations in custom code. Since SAP uses an explicit authorization model, an authority checks must be coded in order to be executed. If an explicit check is not coded, all users have access. This type of vulnerability not only exists in SAP standard it also exists in customer coding. Check your custom developments for vulnerabilities that pose a risk to your systems. SecurityBridge helps detect code vulnerabilities before they are implemented in production.

Risk specification

SAP Financial Consolidation does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges.

Solution

Required authorization checks have been added with SBOP FINANCIAL CONS. 10.1 SP09

The advisory is valid for

FINANCE 1010 ⁴

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Notifications

Affected system SAP Financial...

CVSS 5.0

Component EPM-BFC-PRO

Patch Day2022-06

Released on2022/06/14

SAP Note 3158815

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
SAP Financial...

_CVSS
5.0

_Component
EPM-BFC-PRO

_{Patch Day}
2022-06

_{Released
on}
2022/06/14

_{SAP Note}
3158815

_Workaround
No