SAP Security Notes – January 2023

On the 10th of January 2023, SAP Security Patch Day saw the release of 9 new Security Notes.

There was 3 update to previously released Patch Day Security Notes.

Notes by severity

Highlights

On January Patch Day SAP presents 7 high-severity Notes with all of them rated as HotNews.

Starting with SAP BusinessObjects Security Notes we should talk about the HotNews release of 3262810 Note – Code Injection vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform (Analysis edition for OLAP) – with a CVSS Score of 9.9. Intelligence Analysis edition for OLAP security could be compromised by injecting a malicious code remotely executed by the application. Presented support packages and patches that could be applied to mitigate the security issue. 3243924 Security Note with CVSS Score of 9.9 – Insecure Deserialization of Untrusted Data in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Central Management Console and BI Launchpad) – was re-released from November 2022 Patch Day with new solution steps for SAP BusinessObjects security.

3266006 and 3251447 Security Notes with medium priority both should also be considered to apply for SAP BusinessObjects.

For SAP Business Planning and Consolidation MS security the 3275391 Note was released – SQL Injection vulnerability in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation MS. This Note has a CVSS Score of 9.9, so it is also needed to be reviewed. Crafted database queries could be executed by the potential attacker. Backend data could be at risk of being modified or deleted. However, the solution steps are pretty simple to apply.

SAP NetWeaver AS for Java and ABAP receive several Security Notes. 3268093 Note – Improper access control in SAP NetWeaver AS for Java – with a CVSS Score of 9.4 tells us about the vulnerability of system data and users. Open naming and directory API could be exploited to read, modify data or make it unavailable. 3267780 Note – Improper access control in SAP NetWeaver AS Java (Messaging System) – with a CVSS Score of 9.4 receives an update of solution steps for the latest releases. 3089413 Note – Capture-replay vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS for ABAP and ABAP Platform with a CVSS Score of 9.0 describes the possibility of obtaining illegitimate access to the target system if the system identification hash is not unique. The solution is applicable after certain precautions.

Summary