SAP Security Notes, September 2020
Hot News note 2958563 patches a critical code injection vulnerability in SAP Business Warehouse. The vulnerability targets specific function modules to assume complete control of BW including viewing, changing, or deleting data by injecting code into the working memory which is subsequently executed by the application. It impacts BW releases up to 7.40 running on […]
SAP Security Notes, August 2020
Hot News note 2928635 patches a critical code execution vulnerability in SAP Knowledge Management (KM). KM supports the automatic execution of potentially malicious scripts in stored files without authentication. The note recommends disabling the option for Force Text Download to remove the vulnerability. Force Text Download is a parameter of the WebDAV Protocol. WebDAV includes […]
SAP Security Notes, July 2020
Hot News Note 2934135 patches the critical RECON vulnerability in NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java). RECON targets a missing authentication flaw in the LM Configuration Wizard of AS Java to execute malicious code that creates administrative users in compromised systems. Attackers can exploit RECON to compromise not only AS Java systems but also connected […]
SAP Security Notes, June 2020
Hot News note 2928570 patches a critical remote code execution vulnerability in SAP Liquidity Management for Banking. The vulnerability impacts connections using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP) in Apache Tomcat. AJP connections should be blocked if not required by disabling the AJP Connector. The connections can be exploited to read and process arbitrary files in […]
SAP Security Notes, May 2020
Hot News Note 2835979 patches a critical code injection vulnerability in Service Data Download. The vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to inject malicious code into the ST-PI plugin for NetWeaver Application Server ABAP (AS ABAP). This could lead to the complete compromise of ABAP servers. The vulnerability carries a base CVSS score of 9.9/10 […]
SAP Security Notes, April 2020
Hot news note 2863731 provides updated correction instructions for a critical deserialization vulnerability in the enterprise Business Objects platform. The Crystal Reports .Net SDK WebForm Viewer in Business Objects could enable attackers with basic authorization to execute deserialization attacks. This could be exploited to perform malicious code execution. Note 2904480 patches a significant input validation […]
SAP Security Notes, March 2020
Hot News note 2845377 patches a missing authentication check in the Diagnostics Agent. The Agent is a component of the Solution Manager landscape. It commonly connects to the Java server in Solution Manager through the J2EE Message Server HTTP port. This is recommended by SAP. However, it can also connect to Solution Manager using a […]
SAP Security Notes, February 2020
Note 2841053 patches a high risk Denial of Service (DOS) Vulnerability in the SAP Host Agent. Username/password-based authentication requests for the SAP Host Agent are delegated to operating systems or LDAP, Active Directory and other authentication platforms. Operating systems and authentication platforms often include mechanisms to limit parallel logon requests in order to protect against […]
SAP Security Notes, January 2020
Note 2822074 patches a missing authorization check in the Business Object Repository (BOR) of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The note introduces the switchable authorization check objects S_BOR_RFC and S_BOR_PRX to supplement the generic S_RFC authorization. The new objects should be activated using transaction SACF to secure remote access to BOR. Note 2844646 is a […]
SAP Security Notes, December 2019
Note 2871877 patches multiple high priority vulnerabilities in Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) Workbenches in SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). This includes missing authorizations checks for authenticated users that could lead to an escalation of privileges, and directory traversal caused by insufficient path validation. The latter vulnerability could enable attackers to read, overwrite, delete, or […]