[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-003] SAP WebAS ITS Mobile Start Service Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-003: SAP WebAS ITS Mobile Start Service Multiple 
Vulnerabilities

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1. Impact on Business
=====================

By exploiting this vulnerability, an internal or external attacker would be 
able to perform attacks on the Organization's users through weaknesses in
the SAP system.
Upon a successful exploitation, he would be able to obtain sensitive 
information from legitimate users through social engineering attacks and/or
exploit vulnerabilities in their systems in order to take control of them.

- - Risk Level: Medium


2. Advisory Information
=======================

- - Public Release Date: 2011-04-19

- - Subscriber Notification Date: 2011-04-14

- - Last Revised: 2011-04-14

- - Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-003

- - Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00035

- - Researcher: Mariano Nuñez Di Croce


3. Vulnerability Information
============================

- - Vendor: SAP

- - Affected Components:

. SAP BASIS 640
. SAP BASIS 700-702
. SAP BASIS 710-730

(Check SAP Note 1512134 for detailed information on affected releases)

- - Vulnerability Class: Cross-Site Scripting / Open Redirect

- - Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- - Locally Exploitable: No

- - Authentication Required: No

- - Detection Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - BizRisk Illustration Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - Original Advisory: 
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-003


4. Affected Components Description
==================================

The SAP Web Application Server (WebAS) is the application platform of the SAP 
NetWeaver, which is the basis for the other NetWeaver components. With
the SAP Web Application Server you can implement both server-based and 
client-based Web applications.


5. Vulnerability Details
========================

It has been detected that the ITS Mobile Start service suffers from input 
validation vulnerabilities and design weaknesses, which can be exploited to
perform XSS and arbitrary redirects attacks.

Further 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 1512134 which provide patched versions of the 
affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from 
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1512134.

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
==================

. 2010-09-22: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP.
. 2010-09-23: SAP confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
. 2011-01-11: SAP releases security patches.
. 2011-04-14: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to Onapsis 
Subscribers.
. 2011-04-19: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to security 
mailing lists.


About Onapsis Research Labs
===========================

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business critical systems and applications.

With that objective in mind, a special unit ? the Onapsis Research Labs ? has 
been developed since the creation of the company. The experts involved
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discovered and published many of the public security vulnerabilities in
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The outcome of this advanced and cutting-edge research is continuously provided 
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risks to their critical business information.

Furthermore, the results of this research projects are usually shared with the 
general security and professional community, encouraging the sharing of
information and increasing the common knowledge in this field.


About Onapsis
=============

Onapsis is the leading provider of solutions for the security of ERP systems 
and business-critical applications. Through different innovative products
and services, Onapsis helps its global customers to effectively increase the 
security level of their core business platforms, protecting their
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Copyright (c) 2011 Onapsis SRL. All rights reserved.
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