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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

Update #1 to Security Note 866020, SAP security note 1601461

Description

User inputs in Internet applications should not execute through conversion in a web application.
The security note 866020 describes the SAP provided encoding methods to encode user input.

Following the latest OWASP recommendations and to avoid incompatible changes SAP has created a new version of web encodings methods. This note is an update note to security note 866020.

Available fix and Supported packages

  • SAP_BASIS | 620 | 640
  • SAP_BASIS | 700 | 702
  • SAP_BASIS | 710 | 730
  • SAP_BASIS | 731 | 731

Affected component

    BC-SEC
    Security – Read KBA 2985997 for subcomponents

CVSS

Score: 0

PoC

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

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1601461

TAGS

#HTML-Encode
#HTML-Decode
#URL-Decode
#URL-Encode
#URL
#JavaScript
#CSS
#OWASP
#XSS-encode
#XSS-protection

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