Check Point Advisories

SAP GUI WebViewer3D ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Overwrite (CVE-2007-4475)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-061
Date Published: 16 Dec 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 16 December, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-4475
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The SAP GUI is the GUI client in SAP's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. A vulnerability was reported in the SAP GUI. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the bundled EAI WebViewer3D ActiveX control (webviewer3d.dll) when processing arguments passed to the SaveViewToSessionFile method. Successful exploitation of this issue allows execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to access a particular ActiveX method in the SAP User Interface.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the SAP GUI WebViewer3D ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Overwrite protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  SAP GUI WebViewer3D ActiveX control arbitrary file overwrite

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