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 2960815
was released on
08.09.2020 and deals with
"[Multiple CVEs] Improper Input Validation in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer" within SAP 3D Visual Eneprise .
We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve
denial of service (dos)
with a
medium potential for exploitation
in component CA-VE-VEV.
According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that take a system offline may lead to significant cost for the company, studies quantify the costs in average between 4 and 5 millions dollars. Business continuity requires SAP systems staying online. The CVSS scores or vulnerability descriptions are not enough to represent how a simple bug can lead to a significant loss for companies.
Risk specification
SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer does not validate user inputs properly, allowing an unauthenticated user to open manipulated files received from untrusted sources resulting in the application to crash and become temporarily unavailable.Solution
Update the component SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer, which now properly validates the input files.
The advisory is valid for
Disclaimer
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There is no disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities. In such case, the platform only provides details on which version or signature updates are available within the SecurityBridge platform in order to monitor or measure the vulnerability
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