SAP Security Notes, April 2021
Hot news note 2999854 was updated in April for a critical code injection vulnerability in SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BW/4HANA. BW and BW/4HANA allow a low privileged attacker to inject malicious code using a remote enabled function module over the network. Due to a lack of input validation, users granted RFC access to execute the function module can inject malicious ABAP code. The code is saved persistently in a report in the ABAP repository. The report can then be executed to inject the code, leading to the loss of sensitive data, modification of critical data, or denial of service. Note 2999854 introduces input validation for the effected functions to prevent code injection.
Hot news note 3040210 patches a remote code injection vulnerability in Source Rules of SAP Commerce. SAP Commerce Backoffice allows certain authorized users to create source rules which are translated to drools rule when published to certain modules within the application. An attacker can inject malicious code in the source rules and perform remote code execution enabling them to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the application. SAP Commerce installations that do not include any extensions from the Rule Engine module are not affected. Note 3040210 addresses this vulnerability by adding validation and output encoding when processing Promotion Rules and other Source Rules.
Note 3022422 includes an updated FAQ for a critical missing authorization check in the MigrationService of SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java (AS Java). The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to grant administrative privileges by accessing specific configuration objects. The solution included in the note requires a system restart. Note 3030298 includes a temporary workaround if a restart is not possible.
Note 3001824 patches an information disclosure vulnerability in AS Java. Attackers can invoke telnet commands to access NTLM hashes of privileged users. Possible workarounds for the vulnerability include disabling outgoing NTLM traffic by group policy, blocking outgoing SMB requests via appropriate firewall rules, and, for Linux systems, disabling the Samba protocol on all the hosts in a cluster.