Medium Severity
Affected system
SAP CPI DS
CVSS
4.7
Component
LOD-HCI-DS
Patch Day
2020-03
Released on
2020/03/10
SAP Note
2859004
Workaround
Yes
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Advisory

SAP takes the security of its vast product portfolio very seriously and thus releases security fixes for vulnerabilities reported by external researchers and their customers every second Tuesday of the month.

SAP Note 2859004 was released on 10.03.2020 and deals with "[CVE-2020-6206] Cross-Site Request Forgery in SAP Cloud Platform Integration for data services" within SAP CPI DS. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve cross-site request forgery (xsrf) with a medium potential for exploitation in component LOD-HCI-DS.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround exists. It is advisable to implement the correction as ignore.

Risk specification

SAP Cloud Platform Integration for data serivces allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute attacks on behalf of an authenticated user.

Solution

A filter was implemented to validate requests that are refelcted back in the server's response.  Alternativly, the consulting team has proposed the following: "Cross-site scripting/request forgery filter engine on IDS/IPS/firewall systems. ". The suggestion may be considered, as a workaround or compensating mitigation. We recommend installing/applying the correction wherever possible and as soon as possible. Base your decision on whether or not to apply the patch on your companies and systems risk perspective and consider the provided CVSS 4.7 score.

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