# CVE-2022-31597: Missing authorization in SAP S/4HANA

> A low-privileged user can bypass authorization checks in the business partner extension, leading to privilege escalation and data integrity issues.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cqf6-x4h9-93wj

## What is CVE-2022-31597?

CVE-2022-31597 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA, published on 12 Jul 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Within SAP S/4HANA - versions S4CORE 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, SAPSCORE 127, the application business partner extension for Spain/Slovakia does not perform necessary authorization checks for a low privileged authenticated user over the network, resulting in escalation of privileges leading to low impact on confidentiality and integrity of the data.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-31597?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Sap S\/4hana, Sap Sapscore.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-31597?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-31597 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-31597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31597 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SAP S/4HANA

- [CVE-2022-22530](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22530/): File upload in SAP S/4HANA (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2022-22531](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22531/): File upload in SAP S/4HANA (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-24524](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24524/): Missing authorization in S/4 HANA (Map Treasury Correspondence Format Data) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2022-22542](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22542/): Information disclosure in SAP S/4HANA (Supplier Factsheet and Enterprise Search for Business Partner, Supplier and Customer) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-40306](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40306/): URL Redirection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Manage Catalog Items and Cross-Catalog search) (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-31597 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-31597 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA, published on 12 Jul 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31597 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SAP S/4HANA. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31597/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31597/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31597
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31597
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-31597

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-31597/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.