[ESNC-2013-002] Privilege Escalation in SAP Production Planning and Control

[ESNC-2013-002] Privilege Escalation in SAP Production Planning and Control

Please refer to www.esnc.de for the original security advisory,
updates and additional information.

1. Business Impact

This vulnerability allows bypassing authority checks that exist before
executing a transaction. A transaction in SAP terminology is the
execution of a program.

By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can also control the
transaction to be executed, allowing it to obtain critical rights in
the system and bypassing certain segregation of duties (SoD)
restrictions.

Risk Level: High

2. Advisory Information

– Security Advisory- ID: ESNC-2013-002
– CVE ID: CVE-2013-3062
– Original security advisory:
http://www.esnc.de/sap-security-audit-and-scan-services/security-advisories/38-privilege-escalation-in-sap-production-planning-and-control
– Vendor Patch Date: 2012-06-12
– Public Advisory Date: 2013-04-16
– Researcher: Ertunga Arsal and Mert Suoglu

3. Vulnerability Information

– Vendor: SAP
– Affected Components: Production Planning and Control - Engineering Workbench
– Vulnerability Class: Privilege escalation
– Vulnerable Function: CP_RC_TRANSACTION_CALL_BY_SET
– CVSS v2 score by the vendor: 6.1 (AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
– Remotely Exploitable: Yes
– Authentication Required: Yes
– Additional Notes: An exploit for this vulnerability is available in
ESNC Penetration Testing Suite

4. Solution

Please apply the security patch [SAP Note 1537089] supplied by the vendor.
More information can be found at vendor's site:

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1537089

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