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Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

CVE-2020-6212 Missing Authorization Check in SAP ERP & S/4 HANA (Egypt localized Withholding Tax reports), SAP security note 2864966

Description

Egypt localized withholding tax reports (SAP ERP & S/4 HANA) ‘Clearing of Liabilities ‘ and ‘Remittance Statement and Summary’ do not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, leading to privilege escalation allowing reading or modification of some tax reports.

Some well-known impacts of Missing Authorization check are:

  • read, modify or delete restricted data

Available fix and Supported packages

  • EAPPLGLO | 607 | 607
  • SAP_FIN | 618 | 618
  • SAP_FIN | 730 | 730
  • S4CORE | 100 | 100
  • S4CORE | 101 | 101
  • S4CORE | 102 | 102
  • S4CORE | 103 | 103
  • S4CORE | 104 | 104
  • EAPPLGLO 607 | SAPK-60724INEAPPLGLO |
  • SAP_FIN 618 | SAPK-61814INSAPFIN |
  • SAP_FIN 730 | SAPK-73015INSAPFIN |
  • S4CORE 100 | SAPK-10010INS4CORE |
  • S4CORE 101 | SAPK-10108INS4CORE |
  • S4CORE 102 | SAPK-10206INS4CORE |
  • S4CORE 103 | SAPK-10304INS4CORE |
  • S4CORE 104 | SAPK-10402INS4CORE |

Affected component

    XX-CSC-EG-FI
    Financial Accounting

CVSS

Score: 6.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

PoC

Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2864966

TAGS

#Access-control
#Authorization-error
#Authorization-profile
#&160-Egypt
#&160-Withholding-Tax-Clearing
#Remittance
#&160-Clearing-of-Liabilities-(Withholding-Tax-and-Stamp-Tax)
#&160-Remittance-Statement-and-Summary
#FIAPEG_TXCLR
#FIAPEG_TXREM
#RPFIEG_TXCLR
#RPFIEG_TXREM
#&160-CVE-2020-6212

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