A vulnerability was found in SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Installation Log File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Under certain conditions the SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, version 16.0, allows an attacker to access encrypted sensitive and confidential information through publicly readable installation log files leading to a compromise of the installed Cockpit. This compromise could enable the attacker to view, modify and/or make unavailable any data associated with the Cockpit, leading to Information Disclosure.

The weakness was shared 08/12/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at launchpad.support.sap.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-6295 since 01/08/2020. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• SAP

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• Adaptive Server Enterprise

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• 16.0

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• commercial

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