CVE-2025-42992 Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in SAPCAR
A high-privilege attacker can exploit SAPCAR to escalate privileges by manipulating archive permissions, compromising system integrity.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-42992?
CVE-2025-42992 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP_SE SAPCAR, published on 8 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
SAPCAR allows an attacker logged in with high privileges to create a malicious SAR archive in SAPCAR. This could enable the attacker to exploit critical files and directory permissions without breaking signature validation, resulting in potential privilege escalation. This has high impact on integrity, but low impact on confidentiality and availability of the system.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-42992?
How do I fix CVE-2025-42992?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-42992 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-42992 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-42992 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-64gg-ww65-9f92.