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CVE-2021-27603 — Sap Netweaver Application Server Abap security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

An RFC enabled function module SPI_WAIT_MILLIS in SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP, versions - 731, 740, 750, allows to keep a work process busy for any length of time. An attacker could call this function module multiple times to block all work processes thereby causing Denial of Service and affecting the Availability of the SAP system.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2021-04-13
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • sap / netweaver_application_server_abap / 731
  • sap / netweaver_application_server_abap / 740
  • sap / netweaver_application_server_abap / 750

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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