CVE-2025-43001 Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in SAPCAR
An attacker with high privileges can override directory permissions to modify critical files via signed archives, leading to privilege escalation.
- 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-2025-43001?
CVE-2025-43001 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 override the permissions of the current and parent directories of the user or process extracting the archive, leading to privilege escalation. On successful exploitation, an attacker could modify the critical files by tampering with signed archives without breaking the signature, but it has a low impact on the confidentiality and availability of the system.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43001?
How do I fix CVE-2025-43001?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43001 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-43001 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43001 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-25qh-97qq-x7c4.