# CVE-2021-38150: Information disclosure in SAP Business Client

> Attackers with local memory access can read sensitive credentials from SAP Business Client, potentially compromising backend systems.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Sep 2021
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5qm4-cm2h-3cgf

## What is CVE-2021-38150?

CVE-2021-38150 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Business Client, published on 14 Sep 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

When an attacker manages to get access to the local memory, or the memory dump of a victim, for example by a social engineering attack, SAP Business Client versions - 7.0, 7.70, will allow him to read extremely sensitive data, such as credentials. This would allow the attacker to compromise the corresponding backend for which the credentials are valid.

Weakness: CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-38150?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sap Business Client.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-38150?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-38150 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-38150 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38150 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SAP Business Client

- [CVE-2020-6244](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-6244/): Code injection in SAP Business Client (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2018-2398](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2398/): Information disclosure in SAP Business Client (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2020-6228](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-6228/): Other in SAP Business Client (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-38150 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-38150 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Business Client, published on 14 Sep 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38150 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SAP Business Client. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38150/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38150/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38150
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38150
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38150

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-38150/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.