CVE-2020-6225: SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Management And Collaboration (kmc-Cm)

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SAP NetWeaver (Knowledge Management), versions (KMC-CM - 7.00, 7.01, 7.02, 7.30, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50 and KMC-WPC 7.30, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50), does not sufficiently validate path information provided by users, thus characters representing traverse to parent directory are passed through to the file APIs, allowing the attacker to overwrite, delete, or corrupt arbitrary files on the remote server, leading to Path Traversal.

Affected products

• SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Management And Collaboration (kmc-Cm): version 7.00 only; version 7.01 only; version 7.02 only; version 7.30 only; version 7.31 only; version 7.40 only; …
• SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Management And Collaboration (kmc-Wpc): version 7.30 only; version 7.31 only; version 7.40 only; version 7.50 only

Published 2020-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.