Advisory

On 12.04.2022 a security relevant correction has been released by SAP SE. The manufacturer resolves an issue within SAP 3D Visual Enterprise .

SAP Note 3143437 addresses "[Multiple CVEs] Improper Input Validation in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer" to prevent denial of service (dos) with a medium risk for exploitation.

A workaround does not exist, according to SAP Security Advisory team. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance, the team suggests.

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that take a system offline may lead to significant cost for the company, studies quantify the costs in average between 4 and 5 millions dollars. Business continuity requires SAP systems staying online. The CVSS scores or vulnerability descriptions are not enough to represent how a simple bug can lead to a significant loss for companies.

Risk specification

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer does not properly validate inputs of certain file types allowing an unauthenticated user to open manipulated files received from untrusted sources resulting in the application crashing and becoming temporarily unavailable. The file format details along with their CVE relevant information can be found below: Computer Graphics Metafile (.cgm, CgmCore.dll) - CVE-2022-26106 Jupiter Tesselation (.jt, JTReader.x3d) - CVE-2022-26107 PiCture eXchange (.pcx, 2d.x3d) - CVE-2022-26108 Portable Document Format (.pdf, PDFView.x3d) - CVE-2022-26109 Photoshop Document (.psd, 2d.x3d) - CVE-2022-27654 Universal 3D (.u3d, 3difr.x3d) - CVE-2022-27655

Solution

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer now properly validates the input files.

The advisory is valid for

VE_VIEWER_COMPLETE 9 ¹⁴

Releated advisories

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Notifications

Affected system SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

CVSS 6.5

Component CA-VE-VEV

Patch Day2022-04

Released on2022/04/12

SAP Note 3143437

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

_CVSS
6.5

_Component
CA-VE-VEV

_{Patch Day}
2022-04

_{Released
on}
2022/04/12

_{SAP Note}
3143437

_Workaround
No