CVE-2020-6183 Missing authorization in SAP Host Agent

What is CVE-2020-6183?

CVE-2020-6183 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in SAP Host Agent, published on 12 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SAP Host Agent, version 7.21, allows an unprivileged user to read the shared memory or write to the shared memory by sending request to the main SAPOSCOL process and receive responses that may contain data read with user root privileges e.g. size of any directory, system hardware and OS details, leading to Missing Authorization Check vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6183?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap Host Agent.

How do I fix CVE-2020-6183?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-6183 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2020-6183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6183 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in SAP Host Agent

• CVE-2023-24523 Command injection in Host Agent Service High 8.8
• CVE-2020-6186 Denial of service in SAP Host Agent High 7.5
• CVE-2017-15297 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2023-27498 Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAP Host Agent (SAPOSCOL) High 7.2
• CVE-2020-6234 Privilege escalation in SAP Host Agent High 7.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rpjf-7975-m344.