German enterprise software maker SAP this week announced the release of 18 new security notes on its May 2023 Security Patch Day, including two ‘hot news’ notes that deal with critical vulnerabilities.
One of the hot news notes resolves five vulnerabilities in the Reprise License Manager (RLM) 14.2 component of SAP 3D Visual Enterprise License Manager.
The most severe of these issues is CVE-2021-44152 (CVSS score of 9.8), an improper authentication/authorization check that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to change the password of any user account.
“This allows an attacker to change the password of any known user, thereby preventing valid users from accessing the system and granting the attacker full access to that user’s account,” a NIST advisory reads.
Of the remaining four bugs, three are high-severity and one is medium-severity.
Manually disabling the affected RLM web interface should resolve the issue, enterprise security firm Onapsis explains.
The second hot news security note released on SAP’s May 2023 Security Patch Day addresses multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities in the BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform, which are collectively tracked as CVE-2023-28762 (CVSS score of 9.1).
The most severe of these flaws allows an attacker logged in as administrator to retrieve the login token of any logged-in user or server, without user interaction. This allows the attacker to impersonate any user on the platform to access and modify data and make the system partially or entirely unavailable.
The security note, Onapsis explains in its analysis of the SAP patches, replaces five security notes released in 2022 to address the information disclosure bugs in BusinessObjects, all of which were updated on Tuesday.
SAP released seven new ‘high priority’ notes this week, to resolve vulnerabilities in NetWeaver, IBP Excel add-in, PowerDesigner (Proxy), Commerce, GUI for Windows, and SAPUI5. Seven medium-priority and two low-priority notes were also released on Tuesday.
According to Onapsis, one other security note that SAP has updated this month – but which is not mentioned in the company’s release notes – brings the latest patches for the Chromium browser included in Business Client.
This update is not surprising, considering that Google resolved two zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome only a few weeks ago.
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