Advisory

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SAP Note 3079427 was released on 12.10.2021 and deals with "[CVE-2021-38180] CSV Injection in SAP Business One" within SAP Business One. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve command injection with a medium potential for exploitation in component SBO-CRO-SEC.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround exists. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.

Risk specification

SAP Business One allows an authenticated attacker to inject formulas when exporting data to Excel due to improper sanitation during the data export. Arbitrary commands could be executed by the victim's computer.

Solution

The export sanitizes the data correctly with the patch mentioned. Alternativly, the consulting team has proposed the following: "Change the clients Excel Security Settings to disallow command execution". The suggestion may be considered, as a workaround or compensating mitigation. We recommend installing/applying the correction wherever possible and as soon as possible. Base your decision on whether or not to apply the patch on your companies and systems risk perspective and consider the provided CVSS 6.5 score.

The advisory is valid for

B1_ON_HANA 10.0 ¹⁹
SAP-M-BO 10.0 ²¹

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Notifications

Affected system SAP Business One

CVSS 6.5

Component SBO-CRO-SEC

Patch Day2021-10

Released on2021/10/12

SAP Note 3079427

Workaround Yes

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
SAP Business One

_CVSS
6.5

_Component
SBO-CRO-SEC

_{Patch Day}
2021-10

_{Released
on}
2021/10/12

_{SAP Note}
3079427

_Workaround
Yes