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Preemptive Protection against SAP Internet Graphics Server Input Validation Vulnerability

Attack ID: CPAI-2005-110
Publish Date:
Category: Directory Traversal
Vulnerable Systems: SAP Internet Graphics server prior to version 6.40 Patch 11
Source:

SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1014568

Description: The SAP Internet Graphics Server (IGS) is used in conjunction with SAP R/3 software and renders graphics to a device-dependent format. The server is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability, which can be exploited by remote attackers to access files outside of the permitted directory structure.
Severity:
Details: A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted request containing '../..' directory traversal characters to view files on the target system that are located outside of the web document directory.
Attack Detection: Users of VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55W, users of VPN-1 NGX R60 and users of Connectra who have applied the solution outlined below, will identify attack attempts by the following SmartView Log entry:

Information: reason: WSE0090001 directory traversal overflow
Solution: Users of VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55W, users of VPN-1 NGX R60 and users of Connectra who have applied the solution outlined in CPAI-2005-25 are preemptively protected against this vulnerability.

Industry Reference: CAN-2005-1691
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