CVE-2020-26830 Missing authorization in SAP Solution Manager (User Experience Monitoring)

High 7.6 Published 9 Dec 2020 Updated 4 Aug 2024

An authenticated regular user can bypass authorization checks to modify monitoring configurations, read agent details, and deploy malicious scripts in SAP Solution Manager.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2020-26830?

CVE-2020-26830 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SAP Solution Manager (User Experience Monitoring), published on 9 Dec 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 (User Experience Monitoring), version - 7.2, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user. Due to inadequate access control, a network attacker authenticated as a regular user can use operations which should be restricted to administrators. These operations can be used to Change the User Experience Monitoring configuration, obtain details about the configured SAP Solution Manager agents, Deploy a malicious User Experience Monitoring script.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-26830?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap Solution Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2020-26830?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-26830 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2020-26830 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-26830 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jqj4-298c-3hhv.