[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-001] SAP Management Console Unauthenticated Service Restart

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-001: SAP Management Console Unauthenticated Service Restart

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1. Impact on Business
=====================

By exploiting this vulnerability, an anonymous internal or external attacker would be able remotely disrupt the main 
management interface of the
Organization's SAP systems.
This would result in the impossibility of performing remote maintenance of the SAP landscape, as the attacker can 
repeatedly restart the service and
prevent administrators from using it.

- - Risk Level: High


2. Advisory Information
=======================

- - Public Release Date: 2011-01-12

- - Subscriber Notification Date: 2011-01-04

- - Last Revised: 2011-01-04

- - Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-001

- - Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00011

- - Researcher: Jordan Santarsieri


3. Vulnerability Information
============================

- - Vendor: SAP

- - Affected Components:

        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 6.40
        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 7.00
        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 7.01
        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 7.10
        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 7.11
        . SAP KERNEL RELEASE 7.20
        (Check SAP Note 1439348 for detailed information on affected releases)

- - Vulnerability Class: Denial of Service

- - Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- - Locally Exploitable: No

- - Authentication Required: No

- - Detection Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - BizRisk Illustration Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - Original Advisory: http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-001


4. Affected Components Description
==================================

The SAP Management Console (SAP MC) provides a common framework for centralized system management. It allows users to 
monitor and perform basic
administration tasks on the SAP system centrally, thus simplifying system administration. Through this component, 
administrators can start, stop and
restart instances, monitor system alerts, display log and trace files, etc.

This service is enabled by default in every SAP system.


5. Vulnerability Details
========================

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in the processing of administration commands by the SAP MC. This 
functionality allows the
restart of the service without providing authentication information.

Technical details about this issue are not disclosed at this moment with the purpose of providing enough time to 
affected customers to patch their
systems and protect against the exploitation of the described vulnerability.


6. Solution
===========

SAP has released SAP Note 1439348 which provide patched versions of the affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1439348.

Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related security fixes and apply them to the affected 
components in order to reduce business
risks.


7. Report Timeline
==================

        . 2009-12-17: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP.
        . 2009-12-18: SAP confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
        . 2010-12-14: SAP releases security patches.
        . 2011-01-04: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to Onapsis Subscribers.
        . 2011-01-12: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory to security mailing lists.


About Onapsis Research Labs
===========================

Onapsis is continuously investing resources in the research of the security of business critical systems and 
applications.

With that objective in mind, a special unit – the Onapsis Research Labs – has been developed since the creation of the 
company. The experts involved
in this special team lead the public research trends in this matter, having discovered and published many of the public 
security vulnerabilities in
these platforms.

The outcome of this advanced and cutting-edge research is continuously provided to the Onapsis Consulting and 
Development teams, improving the quality
of our solutions and enabling our customers to be protected from the latest risks to their critical business 
information.

Furthermore, the results of this research projects are usually shared with the general security and professional 
community, encouraging the sharing of
information and increasing the common knowledge in this field.


About Onapsis
=============

Onapsis is the leading provider of solutions for the security of ERP and business-critical systems and applications. 
Through different innovative
products and services, Onapsis helps its global customers to effectively increase the security level of their core 
business platforms, protecting
their information and decreasing financial fraud risks.

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Copyright (c) 2011 Onapsis SRL. All rights reserved.
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