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CVE-2023-0012 (GCVE-0-2023-0012)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-10 02:44 – Updated: 2025-04-09 14:06
VLAI
Title
Local Privilege Escalation in SAP Host Agent (Windows)
Summary
In SAP Host Agent (Windows) - versions 7.21, 7.22, an attacker who gains local membership to SAP_LocalAdmin could be able to replace executables with a malicious file that will be started under a privileged account. Note that by default all user members of SAP_LocaAdmin are denied the ability to logon locally by security policy so that this can only occur if the system has already been compromised.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-09 14:05 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SAP Host Agent (Windows) Affected: 7.21
Affected: 7.22
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