CVE-2018-2380

SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Path Traversal

As of , CVE-2018-2380 in SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 3 November 2021
US federal deadline
3 May 2022181 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Known
EPSS score
0.29Higher than 98% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
Not availableCISA listed it before 4 February 2022, where the EPSS files we read begin.
Public exploit
1 Exploit-DB entry
Fix
No vendor link in CISA's entry

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM) contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users.

CISA's description

SAP CRM, 7.01, 7.02,7.30, 7.31, 7.33, 7.54, allows an 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.

The CVE record's description, from sap

CVE published
1 March 2018
Assigned by
sap
CVSS
6.6 Medium (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 44292).
  3. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  4. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

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