[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-003] SAP WebAS ITS Mobile Start Service Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-003: SAP WebAS ITS Mobile Start Service Multiple Vulnerabilities

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1. Impact on Business
=====================

By exploiting this vulnerability, an internal or external attacker would be able to perform attacks on the 
Organization's users through weaknesses in the SAP system.
Upon a successful exploitation, he would be able to obtain sensitive information from legitimate users through social 
engineering attacks and/or exploit vulnerabilities in their systems in order to take control of them.

- Risk Level: Medium


2. Advisory Information
=======================

- Public Release Date: 2011-04-19

- Subscriber Notification Date: 2011-04-14

- Last Revised: 2011-04-14

- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-003

- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00035

- Researcher: Mariano Nuñez Di Croce


3. Vulnerability Information
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- Vendor: SAP

- Affected Components:

        . SAP BASIS 640
        . SAP BASIS 700-702
        . SAP BASIS 710-730

        (Check SAP Note 1512134 for detailed information on affected releases)

- Vulnerability Class: Cross-Site Scripting / Open Redirect

- Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- Locally Exploitable: No

- Authentication Required: No

- Detection Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- BizRisk Illustration Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- Original Advisory: http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-003


4. Affected Components Description
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The SAP Web Application Server (WebAS) is the application platform of the SAP NetWeaver, which is the basis for the 
other NetWeaver components. With the SAP Web Application Server you can implement both server-based and client-based 
Web applications.


5. Vulnerability Details
========================

It has been detected that the ITS Mobile Start service suffers from input validation vulnerabilities and design 
weaknesses, which can be exploited to perform XSS and arbitrary redirects attacks.

Further technical details about this issue are not disclosed at this moment with the purpose of providing enough time 
to affected customers to patch their systems and protect against the exploitation of the described vulnerability.


6. Solution
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SAP has released SAP Note 1512134 which provide patched versions of the affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1512134.

Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related security fixes and apply them to the affected 
components in order to reduce business risks.


7. Report Timeline
==================

        . 2010-09-22: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP.
        . 2010-09-23: SAP confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
        . 2011-01-11: SAP releases security patches.
        . 2011-04-14: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to Onapsis Subscribers.
        . 2011-04-19: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to security mailing lists.


About Onapsis Research Labs
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About Onapsis
=============

Onapsis is the leading provider of solutions for the security of ERP systems and business-critical applications. 
Through different innovative products and services, Onapsis helps its global customers to effectively increase the 
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