Check Point Advisories

SAP GUI SAPBExCommonResources ActiveX Command Execution

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-436
Date Published: 12 May 2010
Severity: Medium
Last Updated: Tuesday 19 January, 2016
Source:
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The SAP GUI is the GUI client in SAP's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. The SAP GUI family is available for Windows, Java, and HTML/Internet Transaction Server (ITS) environment. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in SAP GUI SAPBExCommonResources ActiveX control. The vulnerability is due to a design weakness in certain function of the ActiveX. This may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary command by enticing the target user to open a maliciously crafted HTML document. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will create a denial of service condition on the target system, and may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the SAP GUI SAPBExCommonResources ActiveX Command Execution 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 SAPBExCommonResources ActiveX command execution

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