National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4830
Original release date:04/16/2009
Last revised:04/28/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Insecure method vulnerability in the KWEdit ActiveX control in SAP GUI 6.40 Patch 29 (KWEDIT.DLL 6400.1.1.41) and 7.10 Patch 5 (KWEDIT.DLL 7100.1.1.43) allows remote attackers to (1) overwrite arbitrary files via the SaveDocumentAs method or (2) read or execute arbitrary files via the OpenDocument method.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1043
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022062
External Source: BID
Name: 34524
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090415 Secunia Research: SAP GUI KWEdit ActiveX Control "SaveDocumentAs()" Insecure Method
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-56/
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32869
Type: Advisory