Sunday, November 27, 2011

Note 1567882 - Missing authorization check in BW RFC

Summary

Symptom

An authenticated user can use functions of BW to which access should be restricted. This may result in an escalation of privileges.

CVSS Information

CVSS Base Score: 8.2
CVSS Base Vector: AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:P

SAP is providing this CVSS base score as an estimate of the risk posed by the issue reported in this note. This estimate does not take into consideration your own system configuration, or operational environment.
It is not intended to replace any risk assessments you are advised to conduct when deciding the applicability or priority of this SAP security note. Please see the FAQ section on https://service.sap.com/securitynotes/ for more information.

Other terms

Authorization, authorization check, BW RFC

Reason and Prerequisites

BW RFC does not contain authorization checks for checking an authenticated user's authorization to access some of its functions. This may result in undesired system behavior.

Solution

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.00

Import Support Package 27 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.00(SAPKW70027) into your BW system. The Support Package will be available as soon as note with the short text "SAPBWNews NW BW 7.0 ABAP SP27", which describes this Support Package in more detail, is released for customers.
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 (SAP NW BW7.0 EnhP 1)

Import Support Package 09 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 (SAPKW70109) into your BW system. The Support Package will be available as soon as note 1369296 with the short text "SAPBINews NW7.01 BW ABAP SP09", which describes this Support Package in more detail, is released for customers.
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.02 (SAP NW BW7.0 EnhP 2)

Import Support Package 08 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.02 (SAPKW70208) into your BW system. The Support Package will be available as soon as SAP note 1510975 with the short text "Prelimenary Version SAPBWNews NW BW 7.02 ABAP SP08", which describes this Support Package in more detail, is released for customers.
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.11

Import Support Package 07 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.11 (SAPKW71107) into your BW system. The Support Package will be available as soon as SAP note 1510976 with the short text "Prelimenary Version SAPBINews NW7.11 BW ABAP SP7", which describes this Support Package in more detail, is released for customers.
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30

Import Support Package 03 for SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 (SAPKW73003) into your BW system. The Support Package will be available as soon as SAP note 1538941 with the short text "SAPBWNews NW7.30 BW ABAP SP03", which describes this Support Package in more detail, is released for customers.





In urgent cases you can use the correction instructions.

Beforehand, definitely check SAP Note 875986 for transaction SNOTE.

This note might already be available before the Support Package is released. In this case, however, the short text still contains the terms"preliminary version".




Header Data



Release Status:Released for Customer
Released on:10.05.2011
Master Language:English
Priority:HotNews
Category:Program error
Primary Component:BW-BEX-OT OLAP Technology
Secondary Components:BW-BEX-OT-DBIF Interface to Database

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