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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

CVE-2017-16684 Missing Authentication check in SAP BI Promotion Management Application, SAP security note 2537152

Description

SAP Business Intelligence (BI) Promotion Management Application does not perform any authentication checks for functionalities that require user identity.

Some well-known impacts of Missing Authentication check are –

  • read, modify or delete sensitive information
  • access administrative or other privileged functionalities

CVSS Information

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.3 / 10
CVSS v3 Base Vector:

AV : Attack Vector (Related exploit range)

Network (N)

AC : Attack Complexity (Required attack complexity)

Low (L)

PR : Privileges Required (Level of privileges needed to exploit)

None (N)

UI : User Interaction (Required user participation)

None (N)

S : Scope (Change in scope due to impact caused to components beyond the vulnerable component)

Unchanged (U)

C : Impact to Confidentiality

Low (L)

I : Impact to Integrity

Low (L)

A : Impact to Availability

Low (L)

SAP provides this CVSS v3 base score as an estimate of the risk posed by the issue reported in this note. This estimate does not take into account your own system configuration or operational environment. It is not intended to replace any risk assessments you are advised to conduct when deciding on the applicability or priority of this SAP security note. For more information, see the FAQ section at https://support.sap.com/securitynotes.

Available fix and Supported packages

  • ENTERPRISE | 410 | 410
  • ENTERPRISE | 420 | 420
  • ENTERPRISE | 430 | 430
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP008 | 000012
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP009 | 000008
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP010 | 000003
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP011 | 000000
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP003 | 000012
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP004 | 000004
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP005 | 000000
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.3 | SP000 | 000000

Affected component

    BI-BIP-LCM
    Lifecycle Management Console – Promotion mgmt, Version mgmt

CVSS

Score: 0

PoC

Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2537152

TAGS

#broken-authentication
#&160-CVE-2017-16684

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