CVE-2023-42473 Missing Authorization Check In S/4HANA (Manage Withholding Tax Items)
An authenticated user can bypass authorization checks in SAP S/4HANA Manage Withholding Tax Items, leading to privilege escalation and potential data modification.
- 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-2023-42473?
CVE-2023-42473 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SAP_SE S/4HANA (Manage Withholding Tax Items), published on 10 Oct 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
S/4HANA Manage (Withholding Tax Items) - version 106, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges which has low impact on the confidentiality and integrity of the application.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-42473?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Sap S\/4hana.
How do I fix CVE-2023-42473?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-42473 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-2023-42473 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-42473 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in SAP_SE S/4HANA (Manage Withholding Tax Items)
- CVE-2022-22530 File upload in SAP S/4HANA
- CVE-2022-22531 File upload in SAP S/4HANA
- CVE-2023-24524 Missing authorization in S/4 HANA (Map Treasury Correspondence Format Data)
- CVE-2022-22542 Information disclosure in SAP S/4HANA (Supplier Factsheet and Enterprise Search for Business Partner, Supplier and Customer)
- CVE-2023-40306 URL Redirection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Manage Catalog Items and Cross-Catalog search)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j972-ff67-2v59.