Skip links
Picture of Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

Missing authorization check in component SAP_BASIS, SAP security note 1776984

SAP Note 1776984

SAP security note 1776984, "Missing authorization check in component SAP_BASIS". Below are the symptom, SAP recommended solution and the affected software components.

Description

Symptom

An authenticated user can exploit functions across different SAP components or products without proper access restrictions, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Solution

Apply the correction instructions provided in this security note. This involves disabling the affected function’s coding, which will return an error message instead. For compatibility, customers can modify the function module to uncomment the coding at their own responsibility. Starting from NetWeaver 740 (SAP_BASIS 740), the function has been removed by SAP.

CVSS

Score 6.0 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected components

  • SAP_BASIS (Enterprise Service Infrastructure > Web Service Infrastructure > Web Service and SOAP – ABAP), versions 700 to 702, 710 to 730, 731

Full note on SAP: SAP Support Launchpad note 1776984

Detailed exploitation and proof-of-concept material for this note is maintained in the RedRays Security Platform. For access, contact [email protected].

Explore More