CVE-2023-40309Missing Authorization check in SAP CommonCryptoLib
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.88%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
SAP CommonCryptoLib does not perform necessary authentication checks, which may result in missing or wrong authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges. Depending on the application and the level of privileges acquired, an attacker could abuse functionality restricted to a particular user group as well as read, modify or delete restricted data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By sap
- 29 days later
· 29 days later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| sapCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.88% · top 40% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected 8
SAP_SE · SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP, SAP NetWeaver AS Java and ABAP Platform of S/4HANA on-premise
- affected KERNEL 7.22
- affected KERNEL 7.53
- affected KERNEL 7.54
- affected KERNEL 7.77
- affected KERNEL 7.85
- affected KERNEL 7.89
- affected KERNEL 7.91
- affected KERNEL 7.92
- affected KERNEL 7.93
- affected KERNEL 8.04
- affected KERNEL64UC 7.22
- affected KERNEL64UC 7.22EXT
- affected KERNEL64UC 7.53
- affected KERNEL64UC 8.04
- affected KERNEL64NUC 7.22
- affected KERNEL64NUC 7.22EXT
- affected 7.22EXT
- affected 7.53
- affected 7.54
- affected 7.77
- affected 7.85
- affected 7.89
- affected 6.50
- affected 7.53
- affected 7.54
- affected 2.00
- affected 722
SAP_SE · SAP Extended Application Services and Runtime (XSA)
- affected SAP_EXTENDED_APP_SERVICES 1
- affected XS_ADVANCED_RUNTIME 1.00
- affected 17
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-44901 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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