Medium Severity
Affected system
Java
CVSS
4.9
Component
BC-XI-CON
Patch Day
2020-11
Released on
2020/11/10
SAP Note
2952084
Workaround
No
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Advisory

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SAP Note 2952084 was released on 10.11.2020 and deals with "[CVE-2020-26814] Information Disclosure in SAP Process Integration (PGP Module – Business-to-Business Add On)" within Java. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve information disclosure with a medium potential for exploitation in component BC-XI-CON.

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

Information disclosure is when an application fails to properly protect sensitive and confidential information from parties that are not supposed to have access to the subject matter in normal circumstances.
Carefully review every information disclosure vulnerablity in regards to disclosure obligations post-GDPR for ‘Personal data’ under the Data Protection Act 2018.

Risk specification

Under certain conditions, the PGP Module of SAP Process Integration, business-to-business add-on allows an authenticatedc attacker to read PGP Keys. The attacker can then use these keys to read messaged that should otherwiese be encrypted.

Solution

The patch introduces appropriate encryption.

Affected System

SAP Netweaver Application Server Java is part of the SAP NetWeaver Application Platform. It provides the complete infrastructure for deploying and running Java applications.

The advisory is valid for

  • PIB2BPGP 1.0

 

 

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