CVE-2020-6271 (GCVE-0-2020-6271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-10 12:38 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:55
VLAI
Summary
SAP Solution Manager (Problem Context Manager), version 7.2, does not perform the necessary authentication, allowing an attacker to consume large amounts of memory, causing the system to crash and read restricted data (files visible for technical administration users of the diagnostics agent).
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Missing XML Validation
Assigner
sap CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 117 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
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