CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-21474 — Sap Hana Database security vulnerability
SAP HANA Database, versions - 1.0, 2.0, accepts SAML tokens with MD5 digest, an attacker who manages to obtain an MD5-digest signed SAML Assertion issued for an SAP HANA instance might be able to tamper with it and alter it in a way that the digest continues to be the same and without invalidating the digital signature, this allows them to impersonate as user in HANA database and be able to read the contents in the database.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2021-02-09
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-326
Affected products
- sap / hana_database / 1.00
- sap / hana_database / 2.00
Matched remediation archetype
Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation
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Check exposure
- Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
- Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
- Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.
Remediate safely
- Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
- Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
- Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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