Advisory
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vulnerabilities reported by external researchers and their customers every second Tuesday of the month.
SAP Note 3362849
was released on
14.11.2023 and deals with
"[CVE-2023-41366] Information Disclosure vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP and ABAP Platform" within Kernel.
We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve
information disclosure
with a
medium potential for exploitation
in component BC-CST-IC.
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
The SAP Internet Communication Manager does allow an unauthenticated attacker to access data that should be restricted, resulting in an information disclosure.Solution
With this kernel patch, the SAP Internet Communication Manager does no longer expose the restricted data to the attacker.
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