📄 Description (English)
SAP Fiori App Intercompany Balance Reconciliation does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges. This has high impact on confidentiality and integrity of the application ,availability is not impacted.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
CVE-2026-0511 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in SAP Fiori App Intercompany Balance Reconciliation affecting authenticated users who can bypass authorization checks. With a CVSS score of 8.1, this vulnerability poses significant risk to confidentiality and integrity of financial data. Immediate patching is critical for Saudi organizations using SAP systems, particularly those in banking and government sectors handling sensitive intercompany transactions.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: Apr 26, 2026 04:49
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability directly impacts Saudi financial institutions regulated by SAMA, particularly banks and investment firms using SAP for intercompany reconciliation. Government entities under NCA oversight managing multi-entity financial operations face significant risk of unauthorized access to sensitive financial data. ARAMCO and other large conglomerates with complex intercompany structures are at high risk. Telecom operators (STC, Mobily) and healthcare organizations using SAP Fiori for financial operations could experience unauthorized data access and manipulation of financial records.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Banking and Financial Services
Government and Public Administration
Energy and Petroleum
Telecommunications
Healthcare
Large Conglomerates and Multi-Entity Organizations
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
8.2
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
1. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS:
- Identify all SAP Fiori instances running Intercompany Balance Reconciliation app
- Restrict access to the application to authorized personnel only
- Enable enhanced logging and monitoring for all transactions in this module
- Review recent access logs for suspicious activity or unauthorized privilege escalation
2. PATCHING GUIDANCE:
- Apply SAP security patch immediately upon availability
- Test patch in non-production environment first
- Schedule maintenance window for production deployment
- Verify patch application and restart SAP services
3. COMPENSATING CONTROLS:
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC) at application level
- Add manual approval workflows for intercompany transactions
- Implement transaction-level audit logging with immutable records
- Restrict database-level access to reconciliation tables
4. DETECTION RULES:
- Monitor for users accessing reconciliation data outside their assigned roles
- Alert on privilege escalation attempts within SAP Fiori
- Track modifications to intercompany balance records
- Flag unusual transaction volumes or patterns in reconciliation module
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
1. الإجراءات الفورية:
- تحديد جميع نوافذ SAP Fiori التي تعمل بتطبيق مصالحة الأرصدة بين الشركات
- تقييد الوصول إلى التطبيق للموظفين المصرح لهم فقط
- تفعيل السجلات والمراقبة المحسنة لجميع المعاملات في هذه الوحدة
- مراجعة سجلات الوصول الأخيرة للنشاط المريب أو تصعيد الامتيازات غير المصرح به
2. إرشادات التصحيح:
- تطبيق تصحيح أمان SAP فوراً عند توفره
- اختبار التصحيح في بيئة غير الإنتاج أولاً
- جدولة نافذة صيانة لنشر الإنتاج
- التحقق من تطبيق التصحيح وإعادة تشغيل خدمات SAP
3. الضوابط البديلة:
- تنفيذ التحكم في الوصول القائم على الأدوار (RBAC) على مستوى التطبيق
- إضافة سير عمل الموافقة اليدوية لمعاملات بين الشركات
- تنفيذ تسجيل التدقيق على مستوى المعاملات مع السجلات غير القابلة للتغيير
- تقييد الوصول على مستوى قاعدة البيانات إلى جداول المصالحة
4. قواعد الكشف:
- مراقبة المستخدمين الذين يصلون إلى بيانات المصالحة خارج أدوارهم المعينة
- تنبيهات محاولات تصعيد الامتيازات داخل SAP Fiori
- تتبع التعديلات على سجلات الأرصدة بين الشركات
- وضع علامة على أحجام المعاملات غير العادية أو الأنماط في وحدة المصالحة
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
5.1.1 - Access Control and Authentication
5.2.1 - Authorization and Access Rights Management
5.3.1 - Audit Logging and Monitoring
5.4.1 - Data Protection and Confidentiality
🔵 SAMA CSF
ID.AC-1 - Identity and Access Management
PR.AC-1 - Access Control Policy
DE.AE-1 - Audit and Accountability
PR.IP-1 - Information Protection Processes
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
A.9.1.1 - Access control policy
A.9.2.1 - User registration and de-registration
A.9.4.3 - Password management
A.10.1.1 - Information security policy for supplier relationships
A.12.4.1 - Event logging
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0.1
Requirement 7 - Restrict access to data by business need to know
Requirement 8 - Identify and authenticate access to system components
Requirement 10 - Track and monitor all access to network resources
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