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Onapsis Security Advisory 2014-006: Missing authorization check in SAP
Background Processing RFC

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1. Impact on Business             

By exploiting this vulnerability a remote authenticated
attacker would be able to perform activities for which
he is not authorized.

Risk Level: Low

2. Advisory Information

- -- Public Release Date: 2014-04-28

- -- Subscriber Notification Date: 2014-04-28

- -- Last Revised: 2014-04-24

- -- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2014-006

- -- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00078

- -- Researcher: Nahuel D. Sánchez

- -- Initial Base CVSS v2:  3.5 (AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)


3. Vulnerability Information

- -- Vendor: SAP

- --Affected Components:

 * SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.1
 (Check SAP Note 1918333 for detailed information on affected releases)

- -- Vulnerability Class: Improper Access Control (CWE-284)

- -- Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- -- Locally Exploitable: No

- -- Authentication Required: Yes

- -- Original Advisory:
https://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2014-006


4. Affected Components Description

SAP Background Processing contains a remote-enabled RFC function that
does not perform
authorization checks prior to retrieving sensitive information.

5. Vulnerability Details

A remote authenticated attacker could execute the vulnerable RFC
function and obtain
sensitive information regarding the target application server.

Technical details about this issue are not disclosed at this moment with
the purpose
of providing enough time to affected customers to patch their systems
and protect
against the exploitation of the described vulnerability.


6. Solution

SAP has released SAP Note 1918333 which provide patched versions of the
affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/19118333.

Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related
security fixes and apply them to the affected components in order to
reduce business risks.

7. Report Timeline

2013-08-29: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP AG.
2013-08-30: SAP confirms having the information of vulnerability.
2014-01-14: SAP releases security patches.
2014-04-28: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory.


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