Potential disclosure of persisted data in FS-BA-AN-STA, SAP security note 1553043

SAP security note 1553043, "Potential disclosure of persisted data in FS-BA-AN-STA", is a program error note released on 08.03.2011. Below are the symptom, SAP recommended solution and the affected software components.

Description

Symptom

A malicious user can exploit FS-BA-AN-STA and use specially crafted inputs to modify database commands, resulting in the retrieval of additional information persisted by the system.

Solution

Implement the correction instruction.

Reason and prerequisites

The problem is caused by an SQL injection vulnerability. The code composes an SQL statement that contains strings that can be altered by a malicious user. The manipulated SQL statement can then be used to retrieve data from the database.

References

Affected components

• FSAPPL 200
• FSAPPL 300
• BANK-ALYZE 42
• BANK-ALYZE 50