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Directory Traversal vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Log Viewer, SAP security note 2370876

Description

SAP NetWeaver Log Viewer allows an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing ‘traverse to parent directory’ are passed through to the file APIs.

Some well-known impacts of Directory Traversal vulnerability are –

  • attacker could read content of arbitrary files on the remote server and expose sensitive data
  • attacker could overwrite, delete, or corrupt arbitrary files on the remote server 

CVSS Information

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.9 / 10
CVSS v3 Base Vector:

AV : Attack Vector (Related exploit range)

Network (N)

AC : Attack Complexity (Required attack complexity)

High(H)

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)

Unchanged (U)

C : Impact to Confidentiality

None (N)

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

  • LMNWABASICAPPS | 7.30 | 7.30
  • LMNWABASICAPPS | 7.31 | 7.31
  • LMNWABASICAPPS | 7.40 | 7.40
  • LMNWABASICAPPS | 7.50 | 7.50
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.30 | SP013 | 000004
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.30 | SP014 | 000005
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.30 | SP015 | 000002
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.30 | SP016 | 000001
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.30 | SP017 | 000000
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP015 | 000011
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP016 | 000010
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP017 | 000007
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP018 | 000003
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP019 | 000002
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.31 | SP020 | 000000
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP010 | 000011
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP011 | 000010
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP012 | 000007
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP013 | 000003
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP014 | 000002
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.40 | SP015 | 000000
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.50 | SP000 | 000007
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.50 | SP001 | 000008
  • LM NWA BASIC APPS 7.50 | SP002 | 000006

Affected component

    BC-JAS-ADM-LOG
    Logging

CVSS

Score: 0

PoC

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2370876

TAGS

#Path-traversal
#backtracking
#directory-climbing&65279

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