SAP NetWeaver AS for JAVA 7.50 Adobe Document Services upload file information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in SAP NetWeaver AS for JAVA 7.50 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function Upload of the component Adobe Document Services. The manipulation leads to file information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-47579. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in SAP NetWeaver AS for JAVA 7.50. This issue affects the function upload of the component Adobe Document Services. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a file information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-538. The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An attacker authenticated as an administrator can use an exposed webservice to upload or download a custom PDF font file on the system server. Using the upload functionality to copy an internal file into a font file and subsequently using the download functionality to retrieve that file allows the attacker to read any file on the server with no effect on integrity or availability

It is possible to read the advisory at me.sap.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-47579 since 09/27/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1083 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213081 (SAP NetWeaver AS Java Multiple Vulnerabilities (December 2024)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (213081). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Solution Stack Software

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• SAP

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• NetWeaver AS for JAVA

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• 7.50

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.sap.com/

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