Advisory

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SAP Note 3002617 was released on 12.01.2021 and deals with "[Multiple CVEs] Improper Input Validation in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer" within SAP 3D Visual Enterprise . 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 allows an authenticated attacker to crash the application by opening a specially crafted file, resulting in an denial of service. The file format details along with their CVE relevant information can be found below: Interchange File Format (.IFF) - CVE-2021-21449, CVE-2021-21457, CVE-2021-21458, CVE-2021-21459 Photoshop Document (.PSD) - CVE-2021-21450 Silicon Graphics Image (.SGI) - CVE-2021-21451 Graphical Interchange Format (.GIF) - CVE-2021-21452 Run Length Encoded (.RLE) - CVE-2021-21453, CVE-2021-21454 Device Independent Bitmap (.DIB) - CVE-2021-21455, CVE-2021-21456, CVE-2021-21460 Bitmap (.BMP) - CVE-2021-21461 Picture Exchange (.PCX) - CVE-2021-21462, CVE-2021-21463, CVE-2021-21464

Solution

The application now properly validated the input files, preventing this type of attack.

The advisory is valid for

VE_VIEWER_COMPLETE 9 ¹⁴

Releated advisories

Disclaimer

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Notifications

Affected system SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

CVSS 4.3

Component CA-VE-VEV

Patch Day2021-01

Released on2021/01/12

SAP Note 3002617

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

_CVSS
4.3

_Component
CA-VE-VEV

_{Patch Day}
2021-01

_{Released
on}
2021/01/12

_{SAP Note}
3002617

_Workaround
No