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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

Code Injection vulnerability in Text Conversion, SAP security note 2371726

Description

UPDATE 13 October 2017 : This note has been re-released with updated ‘Correction Instructions’ information.

Text Conversion, which enables SAP standard text to be replaced by industry specific text, allows an attacker to inject code that can be executed by the application. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the application.

Some well-known impacts of Code Injection vulnerability are

  • Unauthorized execution of commands
  • Sensitive information disclosure
  • Denial of Service

CVSS Information

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.1 / 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)

High (H)

UI : User Interaction (Required user participation)

None (N)

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

Changed (C)

C : Impact to Confidentiality

High (H)

I : Impact to Integrity

High (H)

A : Impact to Availability

High (H)

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

  • SAP_BASIS | 700 | 702
  • SAP_BASIS | 710 | 711
  • SAP_BASIS | 730 | 730
  • SAP_BASIS | 731 | 731
  • SAP_BASIS | 740 | 740
  • SAP_BASIS | 750 | 751
  • SAP_BASIS 700 | SAPKB70034 |
  • SAP_BASIS 701 | SAPKB70119 |
  • SAP_BASIS 702 | SAPKB70219 |
  • SAP_BASIS 710 | SAPKB71022 |
  • SAP_BASIS 711 | SAPKB71117 |
  • SAP_BASIS 730 | SAPKB73017 |
  • SAP_BASIS 751 | SAPK-75101INSAPBASIS |
  • SAP_BASIS 750 | SAPK-75006INSAPBASIS |
  • SAP_BASIS 731 | SAPKB73120 |
  • SAP_BASIS 740 | SAPKB74017 |

Affected component

    BC-DOC-RIT
    Replacing standard texts with industry specific texts

CVSS

Score: 0

PoC

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2371726

TAGS

#Command-Injection
#OS-command-injection
Function-BRAN_DIR_CREATE

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