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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

Missing XML Validation vulnerability in ABAP Development Tools, SAP security note 2892570

Description

ABAP Development Tools do not sufficiently validate an XML document accepted from an untrusted source.

Some well-known impacts of Missing XML Validation vulnerability are –

  • arbitrary files retrieval from the server
  • denial-of-service conditions in successful exploits

Available fix and Supported packages

  • SAP_BASIS_AIE | 3 | 3
  • SAP ABAP IN ECLIPSE 3 | SP008 | 000002

Affected component

    BC-DWB-AIE-DIC
    ABAP-Tools in Eclipse for Data Dictionary (without CDS)

CVSS

Score: 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

PoC

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2892570

TAGS

#&65279-XXE
#XML-input-parsing

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