[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-014] SAP WebAS Remote Denial of Service

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?Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-014: SAP WebAS Remote Denial of Service


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

By exploiting this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be able to 
remotely disrupt the SAP Application Server.
This would result in the total unavailability of the ERP functionality, 
preventing company users from performing the required business processes.

 Risk Level: High

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

- - Release Date: 2011-09-14

- - Last Revised: 2011-09-14

- - Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-014

- - Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00039

- - Researcher: Mariano Nuñez Di Croce


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

- - Vendor: SAP

- - Affected Components:

        * SAP Web Application Server 7.00 Patch Number 95
        ( Check note 1553930 for detailed information on affected releases)

- - Vulnerability Class: Abuse of designed functionality

- - Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- - Locally Exploitable: No

- - Authentication Required: Yes

- - Original Advisory: 
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-014


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

The SAP Web Application Server provides access to many services through a Web 
engine, called the SAP Internet Communication Framework (ICM).


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

 It was detected that the ?cachetest? service suffers from an input validation 
vulnerability.
This interface can be abused by a malicious attacker to put the system under 
continuous, high-load conditions leading to a denial of service condition.

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 1553930 which provide patched versions of the 
affected components.
The patches can be downloaded from 
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1553930

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

        * 2011-01-24: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP.
        * 2011-01-25: SAP confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
        * 2011-06-14: SAP releases SAP Note 1553930 fixing the vulnerability.
        * 2011-09-14: Onapsis releases security advisory.


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

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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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information and increasing the common knowledge in this field.

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

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Copyright (c) 2011 Onapsis SRL. All rights reserved.
This advisory may be distributed as long as its distribution is free-of-charge 
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