---
id: CVE-2025-42992
title: Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in SAPCAR
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: medium
cvss: 6.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-266
vendor: SAP_SE
product: SAPCAR
affected:
  - SAPCAR SAP_CAR 7.53
  - SAPCAR 7.22EXT
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2025-07-11T03:55:27.700770Z'
published: '2025-07-08'
updated: '2026-11-03'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-03T22:03:02.156Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-42992'
references:
  - url: 'https://me.sap.com/notes/3595143'
  - url: 'https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.0014
epssPercentile: 0.03368
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T20:33:06.559Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `SAPCAR SAP_CAR 7.53`
- `SAPCAR 7.22EXT`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.