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Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

CVE-2018-2503 Wrong default authorizations in AS Java keystore service, SAP security note 2658279

Description

By default the keystore service does not sufficiently restrict the access to resources that should be protected.

Some well-known impacts of insuficient access restrictions are:

  • read, modify or delete sensitive information

Available fix and Supported packages

  • SERVERCORE | 7.11 | 7.11
  • SERVERCORE | 7.20 | 7.20
  • SERVERCORE | 7.30 | 7.30
  • SERVERCORE | 7.31 | 7.31
  • SERVERCORE | 7.40 | 7.40
  • SERVERCORE | 7.50 | 7.50
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.11 | SP015 | 000023
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.11 | SP016 | 000011
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.11 | SP017 | 000008
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.11 | SP018 | 000004
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.11 | SP019 | 000000
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.20 | SP009 | 000129
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP015 | 000020
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP016 | 000020
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP017 | 000024
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP018 | 000019
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP019 | 000000
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.30 | SP020 | 000000
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.31 | SP020 | 000027
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.31 | SP021 | 000021
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.31 | SP022 | 000020
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.31 | SP023 | 000000
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.31 | SP024 | 000000
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.40 | SP015 | 000027
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.40 | SP016 | 000021
  • J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.40 | SP017 | 000019

Affected component

    BC-JAS-SEC
    Security, User Management

CVSS

Score: 7.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

PoC

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2658279

TAGS

#default-access-control-confuguration
#&160-CVE-2018-2503

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