Advisory

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SAP Note 2494184 was released on 08.08.2017 and deals with "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in multiple SAP Sybase products" within Sybase platform. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve cross-site request forgery (xsrf) with a medium potential for exploitation in component BC-SYB-SQA.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.

Risk specification

SAP Sybase Cockpit, SAP Control Center (SCC), SQL Anywhere Monitor, and SQL Anywhere On Demand Edition Cloud Console administration tools allow an unauthenticated attacker to trick an authenticated user to send unintended request to the Web server.

Solution

The SWF files, which did not contain proper validation, are re-compiled with an up-to-date version of Adobe Flex SDK.

The advisory is valid for

SYBASE REPLICATION SERVER 15.7.1
SIQ 16.0
SY_ESP_SERVER 5.1
SYBASE_ESP_ADAPTER_FOR_F.I.X. 5.1
SYBASE_ESP_ADAP_FOR_OPEN_ADAP 5.1
SYBASE_SQL_ANYWHERE_SERVER SQL_16.0
SYBASE_SQL_ANYWHERE_SERVER 17.0 ⁵
SYBASE_ESP_STUDIO 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAPTER_NYSE_TECH_MAMA 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAP_TIBCO_RENDEZVOUS 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAPTER_ADOBE_FLEX 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAP_HTTP_OUTBOUND 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAP_LOG_FILE_INPUT 5.1
SY_ESP_ADD_IN_MICROSOFT_EXCEL 5.1
SY_ESP_ADAP_SL_RTVIEW 5.1
SYBASE_ASE_SERVER 15.7 ⁶
SYBASE_ASE_SERVER 16.0 ¹²
SYBASE_ASE_CE_SERVER 15.7

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Notifications

Affected system Sybase platform

CVSS 6.3

Component BC-SYB-SQA

Patch Day2017-08

Released on2017/08/08

SAP Note 2494184

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
Sybase platform

_CVSS
6.3

_Component
BC-SYB-SQA

_{Patch Day}
2017-08

_{Released
on}
2017/08/08

_{SAP Note}
2494184

_Workaround
No