CVE-2025-42946 Directory Traversal vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management)
High-privilege attackers can read or delete sensitive OS files via directory traversal in SAP S/4HANA Bank Communication Management.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-42946?
CVE-2025-42946 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in SAP_SE SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management), published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Due to directory traversal vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (Bank Communication Management), an attacker with high privileges and access to a specific transaction and method in Bank Communication Management could gain unauthorized access to sensitive operating system files. This could allow the attacker to potentially read or delete these files hence causing a high impact on confidentiality and low impact on integrity. There is no impact on availability of the system.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-42946?
How do I fix CVE-2025-42946?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-42946 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-42946 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-42946 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hfmr-frj6-fvhr.