# Onapsis Security Advisory 2022-0007: Directory Traversal vulnerability in
SAP Focused Run (Simple Diagnostics Agent 1.0)


## Impact on Business

Exposing the contents of a directory can lead to a disclosure of useful
information
for the attacker to devise exploits, such as creation times of files or any
information that may be encoded in file names. The directory listing may
also
compromise private or confidential data.


## Advisory Information

- Public Release Date: 06/21/2022
- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2022-0007
- Researcher(s): Yvan Genuer


## Vulnerability Information

- Vendor: SAP
- Affected Components:
  - SIMPLE\_DIAGNOSTICS\_AGENT 1.0

  (Check SAP Note 3159091 for detailed information on affected releases)

- Vulnerability Class: CWE-548
- CVSS v3 score: 2.7 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Risk Level: Low
- Assigned CVE: CVE-2022-27657
- Vendor patch Information: SAP Security NOTE 3159091


## Affected Components Description

SAP Focused Run is a spin-off from SAP Solution Manager concentrating on the
specific needs of high volume system and application monitoring, alerting
and
analytics needs.
(https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-focused-run/expert-portal/)


## Vulnerability Details

A path traversal exists in the Simple Diagnostic Agent service listening, by
default, on localhost port 3005. A local attacker, without particular
privileges,
can use it to display content of the directory as ```sapadm``` OS user.
Leading to
information disclosure of potentially sensitive data.


## Solution

SAP has released SAP Note 3159091 which provide patched versions of the
affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3159091.

Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related
security fixes and apply them to the affected components in order to
reduce business risks.


## Report Timeline

 - 01/28/2022: Onapsis sends details to SAP
 - 02/02/2022: SAP provides internal ID
 - 04/12/2022: SAP releases SAP Note fixing the issue.
 - 06/21/2022: Advisory published



## References

- Onapsis blogpost:
https://onapsis.com/blog/sap-security-patch-day-april-2022-focus-spring4shell-an
d-sap-mii
- CVE Mitre:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-27657
- Vendor Patch:
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3159091


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