SAP Netweaver Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	47360
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 14 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 14 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	Alexandr Polyakov and Dmitriy Evdokimov from Digital Security Research Group
Vulnerable:	SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SAP NetWeaver 7.10 SAP NetWeaver 6.4
Not Vulnerable:

SAP Netweaver Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SAP Netweaver is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

SAP Netweaver Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

To exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to follow a malicious URI.

SAP Netweaver Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor released an update. Please see the references for details.

SAP Netweaver Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• [DSECRG-11-015] SAP Netweaver MessagingServer - XSS (Digital Security)
  
• [DSECRG-11-016] SAP NetWaver Data Archiving Service - multiple XSS (Digital Security)
  
• SAP NetWeaver Homepage (SAP)