Advisory

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SAP Note 2902456 was released on 14.04.2020 and deals with "[CVE-2020-6236] Privilege Escalation in SAP Landscape Management (SAP Adaptive Extensions)" within SAP Landscape Management. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve command injection with a high potential for exploitation in component BC-VCM-LVM.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.

Risk specification

An authenticated attacker might be able to execute arbitary commands with root privileges on a target system.

Solution

SAP Landscape validation will now properly validates user input.

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Notifications

Affected system SAP Landscape Management

CVSS 7.2

Component BC-VCM-LVM

Patch Day2020-04

Released on2020/04/14

SAP Note 2902456

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
SAP Landscape Management

_CVSS
7.2

_Component
BC-VCM-LVM

_{Patch Day}
2020-04

_{Released
on}
2020/04/14

_{SAP Note}
2902456

_Workaround
No