[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-016] SAP WebAS Malicious SAP Shortcut Generation

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-016: SAP WebAS Malicious SAP Shortcut Generation

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

- - Release Date: 2011-09-14

- - Last Revised: 2011-09-14

- - Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-016

- - Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00041

- - Researcher: Mariano Nuñez Di Croce


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

- - Vendor: SAP

- - Affected Components:

        * SAP Web Application Server 7.00 Patch Number 95
         ( Check note 1556749 for detailed information on affected releases)

- - Vulnerability Class:  Abuse of designed functionality / Parameter Injection

- - Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- - Locally Exploitable: No

- - Authentication Required: No

- - Original Advisory: 
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-016


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

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

The SHORTCUT ICF service represents a dangerous functionality per-se, as it can 
be executed anonymously by malicious parties to perform client-side
attacks to the organization's end-users.

Furthermore, this service contains a parameter injection vulnerability, which 
provides attackers with further control over the generation of the SAP
shortcuts.

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.


7. Report Timeline
===================

        * 2011-01-25: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP.
        * 2011-01-25: SAP confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
        * 2011-04-12: SAP releases sapnote 1556749 fixing the vulnerability.
        * 2011-09-14: Onapsis releases security advisory.


About Onapsis Research Labs
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