SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability in HANA Streaming Analytics
14.11.2018 securityweek Vulnerebility

SAP this week published its November 2018 set of security patches, which include 11 new Security Patch Day Notes, along with 3 updates for previously released notes.

This month’s Security Notes include a Hot News note, five notes rated High, and eight notes considered Medium risk.

The most important of the Notes (CVSS score of 9.9) addresses two vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework library used by SAP HANA Streaming Analytics, tracked as CVE-2018-1270 and CVE-2018-1275.

The remote command execution issue could be exploited for unauthorized code execution, allowing an attacker to access arbitrary files and directories located in a SAP server file system, ERPScan, a company that specializes in securing SAP and Oracle applications, says.

Another critical SAP security note (CVSS score 8.6) released this month addresses four vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-2488, CVE-2018-2491, CVE-2018-2489, and CVE-2018-2490) in the SAP Fiori Client for Android, the native mobile application used for communication with the SAP Fiori server.

The bugs includes a denial of service issue, a remote HTML injection flaw, missing authorization checks, and information disclosure, Onapsis, which also specialized in securing Oracle and SAP programs, says. A fifth vulnerability (CVE- 2018-2485) breaks Android's sandboxing, allowing an attacker to perform arbitrary tasks via a malicious application targeting the bug, without triggering a notification to the user.

“An attacker could remotely control his malware, to exfiltrate sensitive devices contents, like all phone contacts, all calendar schedule, pictures, SAP system configuration file, and cookie sessions. This information can be used to develop more critical attacks or spying on end users, retrieve date and time of an important meeting, record audio during this interval and exfiltrate the audio file,” Onapsis says.

SAP also addressed a Denial of Service in SAP Mobile Secure Android Application, which is none other than the re-branded SAP Afaria Android client. A malicious app could target the bug to crash SAP Mobile Secure without user interaction.

Other important Security Notes released this month address a Zip Slip in SAP Disclosure Management (CVE-2018-2487) and a Denial of service in Web Intelligence Richclient 3 Tiers Mode (CVE-2018-2473). SAP also addressed an issue with leveraging privileges by customer transaction code (CVE-2018-2481).

The Medium risk bugs addressed this month impact SAP Basis (TREX / BWA installation), NetWeaver Knowledge Management XMLForms, BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, NetWeaver AS ABAP Business Server Pages, and NetWeaver (forums).

This moth, implementation flaws and denial of service bugs were the most encountered vulnerability types. SAP also addressed Cross-site Scripting, remote command execution, missing authorization check, directory traversal, open redirect, verb tampering, XML External Entity, and server side request forgery flaws.