CVE-2023-42473
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 · uneditedS/4HANA Manage (Withholding Tax Items) - version 106, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges which has low impact on the confidentiality and integrity of the application.
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 confidenceSAP S/4HANA Manage (Withholding Tax Items) version 106 fails to perform proper authorization checks on authenticated users, allowing users to escalate privileges and access functionality beyond their intended permissions. This broken access control vulnerability enables low-impact modification of withholding tax data by unauthorized users.
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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= 106CVSS 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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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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Verify SAP S/4HANA versionCheck the installed SAP S/4HANA version using SAP transaction SM51 or system information logs. Confirm the version is exactly 106.Affected if The installed S/4HANA version is 106.
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Identify Withholding Tax Items functionality access pointsLocate the transaction codes, Fiori apps, or web endpoints used to access the Withholding Tax Items feature in the SAP S/4HANA system.Affected if The Withholding Tax Items functionality is present and accessible in the system.
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Review user role assignments for Withholding Tax ItemsUse transaction PFCG or SUIM to examine which roles grant access to the Withholding Tax Items feature. Check if users have been assigned roles that provide this access.Affected if Users without proper authorization have been assigned roles that grant access to Withholding Tax Items functionality.
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Inspect authorization objects for Withholding Tax ItemsUsing transaction SUIM or SU24, examine the authorization objects assigned to roles that control Withholding Tax Items access. Verify if authorization object checks are properly configured.Affected if The roles controlling Withholding Tax Items lack proper authorization object checks, or authorization checks are bypassed.
A user is affected if the SAP S/4HANA version is exactly 106 and the Withholding Tax Items functionality is accessible 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 proper authorization checks using SAP's existing authorization concept (PFCG roles, authorization objects) to enforce role-based access control on the Withholding Tax Items functionality.
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