Arpine Maghakyan

Security Researcher of RedRays.

December 12, 2017
5:15 am

CVE-2017-16683 Denial of service (DOS) in SAP BusinessObjects Platform, SAP security note 2531656

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Platform allows an attacker to prevent legitimate users from accessing a service. A specially crafted request can make the Central Management Server crash. It will prevent legitimate users from accessing the system.

Some well-known impacts of Denial of Service vulnerability are –

long response delays and service interruptions, thus degrading the service quality experienced by legitimate users
direct impact on availability

CVSS Information

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 / 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)	Low (L)
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	None (N)
I : Impact to Integrity	None (N)
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

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 | 000002
SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP011 | 000000
SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP003 | 000011
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

CVSS

Score: 0

Exploit

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2531656

TAGS

#&65279-DoS
#DDoS
#Distributed-Denial-of-Service
#Uncontrolled-Resource-consumption
#Resource-Exhaustion
#&160-CVE-2017-16683

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