Actively exploited · Published Aug 7, 2017 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2017-12637

High 7.5 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in NetWeaver from SAP. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 19, 2025). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 95.1% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)95.1%top 0.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 19, 2025
Attack tooling2Nuclei, Public PoC

CISA guidance

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 9, 2025.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in scheduler/ui/js/ffffffffbca41eb4/UIUtilJavaScriptJS in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java 7.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the query string, as exploited in the wild in August 2017, aka SAP Security Note 2486657.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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