SAP Note Assistant tool (SAP BASIS from 7.00 to 7.02, from 7.10 to 7.11, 7.30, 7.31,7.40, from 7.50 to 7.52) supports upload of digitally…

Description

SAP Note Assistant tool (SAP BASIS from 7.00 to 7.02, from 7.10 to 7.11, 7.30, 7.31,7.40, from 7.50 to 7.52) supports upload of digitally signed note file of type 'SAR'. The digital signature verification is done together with the extraction of note file contained in the SAR archive. It is possible to append a tampered file to the SAR archive using SAPCAR tool and during the extraction, digital signature verification fails but the tampered file is extracted.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Digital signature verification along with note file extraction
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• SAP · SAP Note Assistant

  • affected SAP BASIS from 7.00 to 7.02, from 7.10 to 7.11, 7.30, 7.31,7.40, from 7.50 to 7.52

References (3)

• https://blogs.sap.com/2017/12/12/sap-security-patch-day-december-2017/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2546220 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 101822 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-16691](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-16691.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-16691)

Record last updated 17 Sept 2024, 00:31 UTC.