Local Privilege Escalation in SAP Host Agent
Priority LOW 32CWE-266Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-266.
Summary
An attacker who gains local membership to sapsys group could replace local files usually protected by privileged access. On successful exploitation the attacker could cause high impact on confidentiality and integrity of the application.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00147 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-47595
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-29qg-j923-rv8r
References
Advisory 1
More SAP Host Agent vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-21149 Missing Authorization check in SAP CommonCryptoLib CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-21148 Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAP CommonCryptoLib CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-12226 Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAP Host Agent (SAPOSCOL) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2020-05090 SAP Host Agent, version 7.21, allows an attacker with admin privileges to use the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2017-11211 SAP Hostcontrol does not require authentication for the SOAP SAPControl endpoint. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-10144 Exposure of resource to wrong sphere in SAP Host Agent Service CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2024-47595 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-47595 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-29qg-j923-rv8r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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