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Critical 06/14/2021 SAP Solution Manager

Missing authorization check in SAP Solution Manager

Impact On Business

Due to a missing authorization check in SAP Solution Manager LM-SERVICE component a remote authenticated attacker could be able to execute privileged actions in the affected system, including the execution of operating system commands.

Affected Components Description

A core component of the SAP Solution Manager, LM-SERVICE is affected by this vulnerability. For a detailed list of the affected versions please refer to the SAP Security Note stated above.

Affected components:

SAP Solution Manager 7.20

(Check SAP Note #2890213 for detailed information on affected releases)

Vulnerability Details

A remote authenticated attacker, without any other authorization in their profile more than the ones needed to login via HTTP(s) could be able to abuse privileged critical functionality such as the execution of administrative methods used to configure or monitor Satellite systems, or the execution of arbitrary code which will lead to arbitrary remote code execution.

Solution

SAP has released SAP Note #2890213 which provides patched versions of the affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2890213

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

Report Timeline

10/08/2020: Onapsis report vulnerability to SAP
10/12/2020: SAP Confirms vulnerability and provides CVSSv3 Score
11/10/2020: SAP releases SAP Security note 2890213 fixing this issue

REFERENCES

Onapsis blogpost: https://onapsis.com/blog/sap-security-notes-september-2020
CVE Mitre: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6207
Vendor Patch: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2890213

Advisory Information

Public Release Date: 06/14/2021
Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2021-0014
Vulnerability Submission ID: 848
Researcher(s): Pablo Artuso, Yvan Genuer, Nahuel D. Sánchez

Vulnerability Information

Vendor: SAP
Vulnerability Class: |LS|CWE-862|RS| Missing Authorization
CVSS v3 score: 9.9 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Severity: Critical
CVE: CVE-2020-6207
Vendor patch Information: SAP Security Note 2890213

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