Business OneApplication · Sap

CVE-2022-35292

HIGH · 7.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-09-13
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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81/100
Remediation priority · High
No privileges

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 · unedited
In SAP Business One application when a service is created, the executable path contains spaces and isn’t enclosed within quotes, leading to a vulnerability known as Unquoted Service Path which allows a user to gain SYSTEM privileges. If the service is exploited by adversaries, it can be used to gain privileged permissions on a system or network leading to high impact on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

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 · high confidence

SAP Business One contains an Unquoted Service Path vulnerability where the executable path for a created service contains spaces and is not enclosed within quotes. This allows Windows to interpret each space-delimited word as a potential executable, enabling attackers to place malicious code in earlier path components and achieve SYSTEM-level privilege escalation.

MitigationEnclose the service executable path in quotes within the service configuration, and/or reinstall SAP Business One to a path without spaces (e.g., C:\SAP\BusinessOne) and update the service configuration accordingly.

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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
Business OneApplication
Affected:= 10.0

CVSS 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
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify SAP Business One services
    Open Services console (services.msc) or run 'sc queryex type= service state= all' and filter for services containing 'SAP' or 'Business One' in the name
    Affected if Any SAP Business One service is found on the system
  2. Check service executable path
    For each identified SAP Business One service, run 'sc qc <service_name>' to query the service configuration and locate the BINARY_PATH_NAME entry
    Affected if The BINARY_PATH_NAME shows an executable path that is not enclosed in double quotes
  3. Verify path contains spaces
    Examine the unquoted BINARY_PATH_NAME for the presence of space characters in the directory path (e.g., C:\Program Files\SAP\...)
    Affected if The executable path contains spaces and is not quoted
  4. Check for writable path components
    Review each directory segment in the unquoted path before the executable name and verify file system permissions using 'icacls <directory_path>'
    Affected if Any directory component preceding the executable is writable by a low-privilege user

A user is affected if SAP Business One version 10.0 is installed and any of its Windows services have an unquoted executable path containing spaces with writable path components.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Enclose the service executable path in quotes within the service configuration, and/or reinstall SAP Business One to a path without spaces (e.g., C:\SAP\BusinessOne) and update the service configuration accordingly.

Fix this in Business One Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation3.0 h
  • Testing2.0 h
  • Review / QA1.0 h
8.0 hours of engineering $1,420
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