CVE-2022-26104
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSAP Financial Consolidation - version 10.1, does not perform necessary authorization checks for updating homepage messages, resulting for an unauthorized user to alter the maintenance system message.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThis is an broken access control vulnerability in SAP Financial Consolidation 10.1 where the application fails to perform proper authorization checks before allowing updates to homepage messages. An unauthorized user can exploit this to alter maintenance system messages, potentially facilitating social engineering or disruption of system communications.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 10.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm SAP Financial Consolidation versionLocate the installed version of SAP Financial Consolidation in the system information panel, about dialog, or version file provided by the SAP installation. Verify it is exactly version 10.1.Affected if The installed version is SAP Financial Consolidation 10.1
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Identify homepage message management featureLocate the homepage or dashboard message maintenance functionality within the SAP Financial Consolidation web interface or admin console.Affected if The homepage message management feature is present and accessible in the application
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Test authorization on message update endpointUsing a low-privilege or unauthorized test account, attempt to access and modify homepage maintenance messages through the application interface or relevant API endpoint.Affected if A user without administrative privileges can successfully update or modify homepage messages without receiving an authorization error
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Verify web service accessibility for message operationsCheck if the web service or HTTP endpoint handling homepage message updates is exposed and accessible without proper role-based access control validation.Affected if Message update endpoints respond without enforcing proper authentication or authorization checks
A user is affected if they are running SAP Financial Consolidation version 10.1 AND the homepage message update functionality is accessible to unauthorized users without proper authorization validation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement function-level access control checks to verify user authorization before permitting updates to homepage or maintenance messages. Apply SAP security note for this vulnerability and ensure all sensitive endpoints require appropriate authentication and authorization.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2022-26104 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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