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CVE-2020-6262: 
SAP Application Server vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Service Data Download in SAP Application Server ABAP (ST-PI) contains a code injection vulnerability affecting versions before 2008_1_46C, 2008_1_620, 2008_1_640, 2008_1_700, 2008_1_710, and 740. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in January 2020 (NVD, CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject code that can be executed by the application. It has been assigned CVE-2020-6262 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) by NVD and 9.9 (CRITICAL) by SAP SE. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, an attacker could control the behavior of the application and the whole ABAP system through code injection, potentially leading to complete system compromise (CVE).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires low attack complexity and can be exploited remotely with low privileges and no user interaction (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

SAP has released security patches for the affected versions. Users should upgrade to versions 2008_1_46C, 2008_1_620, 2008_1_640, 2008_1_700, 2008_1_710, or 740 or later to address this vulnerability (SAP Note).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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