Vulnerability · Published Feb 9, 2021 · Assigned by sap

CVE-2021-21475

Medium 6.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management Server from SAP SE. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 19.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Under specific circumstances SAP Master Data Management, versions - 710, 710.750, allows an unauthorized attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing 'traverse to parent directory' are passed through to the file APIs. Due to this Directory Traversal vulnerability the attacker could read content of arbitrary files on the remote server and expose sensitive data.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
SAP SE	SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management Server	< 710< 710.750

References

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3000897 x_refsource_MISC
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=568460543 x_refsource_MISC