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FKIE_CVE-2017-5997

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-02-15 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:21

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

The SAP Message Server HTTP daemon in SAP KERNEL 7.21-7.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process crash) via multiple msgserver/group?group= requests with a crafted size of the group parameter, aka SAP Security Note 2358972.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
sap	sap_kernel	7.21
sap	sap_kernel	7.22
sap	sap_kernel	7.42

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CVE-2017-5997 (GCVE-0-2017-5997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-15 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:18

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2017-02-15 00:00

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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