SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dispatcher Service Memory Corruption – Torchsec
vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dispatcher service
## Impact on Business
An unauthenticated attacker without specific knowledge of the system can
send a
specially crafted packet over a network which will trigger an internal
error in
the system causing the system to crash and rendering it unavailable.
## Advisory Information
- Public Release Date: 11/22/2021
- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2021-0015
- Researcher(s): Yvan Genuer
## Vulnerability Information
- Vendor: SAP
- Affected Components: All SAP kernel 32 and 64 bits, unicode and no-unicode
- SAP KERNEL 7.22
- SAP KERNEL 7.22EXT
- SAP KERNEL 7.49
- SAP KERNEL 7.53
- SAP KERNEL 7.73
- SAP KERNEL 7.77
- SAP KERNEL 7.81
- SAP KERNEL 8.04
(Check SAP Note 3021197 for detailed information on affected releases)
- Vulnerability Class: CWE-20, CWE-125, CWE-476
- CVSS v3 score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Risk Level: High
- Assigned CVE: CVE-2021-27628 CVE-2021-27607
- Vendor patch Information: SAP Security NOTE 3021197
## Affected Components Description
The SAP dispatcher service is part of SAP Kernel. Mandatory, it manage,
gather
and collect the requests from end users then forward them to work process.
Without SAP dispatcher service, the SAP system is not able to process any
users
requests.
## Vulnerability Details
CVE-2021-27607 : A NULL pointer dereference exist in `ThSncIn(REQUEST_BUF**,
unsigned char)`, where `_Z10DpCaGetPtri` tries to read a part of input
controlled by an attacker, then return 0x0 instead of a pointer to normal
value
if the input is 0xffffffff.
CVE-2021-27628 : A memory corruption vulnerability exists for
`DpRTmPrepareReq(DP_SESSION_INFO)` in Disp+work binary through the SAP
Dispatcher service. If an attacker crafts a valid SAP Dispatcher packet,
with
valid header, but with a total packet size smaller than normal, the
subtraction
operation results in a negative value. Also if this negative value is
anticipated and put in the same packet at a particular offset, the check
operation that compares the two values will pass, and this value is used as
size
during the next operation.
## Solution
SAP has released SAP Note 3021197 which provide patched versions of the
affected components.
The patches can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3021197.
Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related
security fixes and apply them to the affected components in order to
reduce business risks.
## Report Timeline
- 02/01/2021: Onapsis sends details to SAP
- 02/04/2021: SAP provides internal ID
- 02/08/2021: SAP confirms CVSS
- 06/09/2021: SAP releases SAP Note fixing the issue.
- 11/21/2021: Advisory published
## References
- Onapsis blogpost:
https://www.onapsis.com/blog/sap-security-patch-day-june-2021-multiple-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities-can-lead-system
- CVE Mitre:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27607
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27628
- Vendor Patch:
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3021197
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