SAP Security Notes
Read our latest SAP security bulletins to patch vulnerabilities in your SAP systems
SAP Security Notes, March 2024
Hot news note 3425274 deals with a critical code injection vulnerability in applications developed with SAP Build Apps. The note recommends rebuilding applications with version 4.9.145 or later. Hot news note 3433192 patches a code injection vulnerability in the Administrator Log Viewer plug-in of SAP NetWeaver AS Java. The plug-in allows threat actors with the …
SAP Security Notes, February 2024
Hot news note 3420923 patches a critical code injection vulnerability in the Web Survey component of Application Basis. Prerequisite note 1110803 is required to apply the correction for versions 700-710 and note 1354949 is required for version 711. As a workaround, remote calls to function modules of CA-SUR can be restricted using authorization object S_RFC. …
SAP Security Notes, January 2024
Hot news note 3412456 deals with a critical privilege escalation vulnerability impacting the development platforms SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Web IDE Full-Stack and SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA. Applications in the node.js JavaScript runtime environment are vulnerable to CVE-2023-49583. Applications developed using @sap/xssec library versions earlier than 3.6.0 and @sap/approuter versions earlier than …
SAP Security Notes, December 2023
Hot news notes 3350297 and 3399691 patch a critical OS command injection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA and ECC. The notes are only applicable for installations with active IS-OIL software components. You can use transaction SFW_BROWSER to check the status of the OIB_QCI and OI0_COMMON_2 switches in BUSINESS_FUNCTION_BASIS_COM and COMMODITY_MGMT_&_BULK_LOGISTIC. IS-OIL is active if both switches …
SAP Security Notes, November 2023
Hot News note 3355658 patches a critical missing authentication check vulnerability in SAP Business One. The vulnerability has a CVSS Base Score of 9.6/10 with a high impact to confidentiality, integrity and availability. SAP Business One allows read and write-access to SMB shared folders to anonymous users. The impacted components are the Crystal Reports (CR) …
SAP Security Notes, October 2023
Hot news note 3340576 patches a critical missing authorization check in the SAP Common Cryptographic Library (CommonCryptoLib) that could enable attackers to escalate privileges. CommonCryptoLib is installed in multiple SAP products including SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP, SAP NetWeaver AS Java and ABAP Platform of S/4HANA on-premise, as well as SAP HANA Database, SAP Web Dispatcher, …
SAP Security Notes, September 2023
Hot news notes 3245526 and 3320355 patch critical code injection and information disclosure vulnerabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform (BOBJ). Note 3245526 was re-released in September with updated support package and patch level details. The note patches a command injection vulnerability that can be exploited to escalate privileges in the platform. The vulnerability impacts the …
SAP Security Notes, August 2023
Hot news note 3341460 patches multiple critical vulnerabilities in the data modelling and management solution SAP PowerDesigner. This includes an access control vulnerability for CVE-2023-37483 that has a CVSS score of 9.8/10. The vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary queries against back-end databases via proxies. It also includes an information disclosure vulnerability …
SAP Security Notes, July 2023
Hot news note 3350297 for a critical OS command injection vulnerability in SAP ECC and S/4HANA was re-released with instructions for confirming the prerequisites for the note. The IS-OIL component must be enabled in order for the note to be applicable. The note includes instructions for checking whether the component and supporting switches are enabled …
SAP Security Notes, June 2023
Notes 3324285 and 3326210 patch high priority vulnerabilities in SAP UI5. The former applies input validation to block the storage and reading of malicious scripts that could lead to cross-site scripting. The latter introduces additional restrictions to prevent the injection of untrusted CSS that can be exploited to perform clickjacking exploits. Note 3326210 includes a …
SAP Security Notes, May 2023
Hot news note 3307833 patches a critical information disclosure vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BOBJ) platform. The vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated threat actors with administrator privileges to compromise the login token of any logged-in BI user or server over the network. The login ticket can be used to access the platform with …
SAP Security Notes, April 2023
Hot news note 3305369 patches missing authentication check and code injection vulnerabilities in the SAP Diagnostics Agent. The note removes the EventLogServiceCollector and OSCommand Bridge components from the Agent to address the vulnerability. The patch does not effect metric data collection for data collectors that use the Agent. However, it will disable metric testing. Hot …
SAP Security Notes, March 2023
Hot news note 3273480 was updated in March for SP026 of NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java) 7.50. The note deals with a critical SQL injection vulnerability that can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers that attach to an open interface exposed through JNDI by User Defined Search (UDS) of AS Java. The fix included in …
SAP Security Notes, February 2023
Hot news note 3273480 was updated in February for a critical vulnerability that could enable attackers to compromise installations of NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java) via an open JNDI interface exposed through User Defined Search (UDS). The updates include corrections for side effects caused by the original fix for the vulnerability that implemented authorization …
SAP Security Notes, January 2023
Hot news note 3089413 patches a critical capture-replay vulnerability that can lead to authentication bypass in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP). The vulnerability is caused by the failure to use unique hashes for system identification. Note 3089413 includes corrections for the SAP kernel and the SAP Basis component. The corrections must be applied …
SAP Security Notes, December 2022
Hot news notes 3267780 and 3273480 patch critical broken authentication vulnerabilities in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java). Threat actors can exploit the vulnerabilities to attach to an open interface exposed through JNDI by the Messaging System and User Defined Search (UDS) of SAP NetWeaver AS Java. Once attached, they can make use of …
SAP Security Notes, November 2022
Hot news note 3243924 for CVE-2022-41203 patches a critical vulnerability related to insecure deserialization of untrusted data in the Central Management Console (CMC) and BI Launchpad of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BOBJ). The vulnerability impacts versions 4.2 and 4.3 of BOBJ and can be exploited by threat actors to bypass authentication, inject malicious code, …
SAP Security Notes, October 2022
Hot news note 3239152 patches a critical URL redirection vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud. The vulnerability can be exploited to manipulate URLs and redirect users to logon pages controlled by threat actors. User submissions served by attacker-controlled servers can be used to steal logon credentials and hijack accounts. Note 3239152 includes a fix for specific …
SAP Security Notes, September 2022
Note 3237075 patches a high priority vulnerability in SAP GRC Access Control that could be exploited by attackers to access Firefighter sessions even after they are closed in the Firefighter Logon Pad. Firefighter IDs are dedicated user identities with elevated privileges that are activated when required and controlled through Emergency Access Management (EAM) in SAP …
SAP Security Notes, August 2022
Note 3102769 was rereleased in August with updated solution information. The workaround detailed in the original note has been moved to the new note 3221696. The workaround provides steps for deactivating the SAP IKS component to address a high priority cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP Knowledge Warehouse. Note 3150454 was also updated to enforce …
SAP Security Notes, July 2022
There were several high priority security notes released in July for multiple vulnerabilities in SAP Business One. Note 3212997 patches an information disclosure issue that arises during the integration between Business One and SAP HANA. The vulnerability can be exploited to access privileged account credentials through the HANA cockpit’s data volume. Customers can switch from …
SAP Security Notes, June 2022
Note 3158375 patches a high priority vulnerability in the SAProuter that can be exploited by attackers to execute administration commands from remote clients. The SAProuter is designed to accept administration commands from local clients only. However, this restriction can be bypassed in installations with specific entries in the saprouttab, the root permission table for the …
SAP Security Notes, May 2022
Hot news note 3165801 patches a critical missing authorization check in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The notes introduces an authorization check for object S_OC_SEND to prevent the transmission of the contents of ABAP list output from the System Menu via e-mail. The note impacts all versions of SAP_BASIS from 700 to 788. Notes 2756188 …
SAP Security Notes, April 2022
The central note 3170990 consolidates security notes for the critical Spring4Shell vulnerability. Spring4Shell is addressed by CVE-2022-22965. This is related to a remote code execution vulnerability in the open-source Java Spring Framework. Successful exploitation requires Apache Tomcat for serving applications built as a WAR file. Notes 3189428, 3187290, 3189429, 3189635 and 3171258 patch Sping4Shell in …