CVE-2021-21475
Published: 09 February 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21475 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Sap Netweaver Master Data Management Server. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 32.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8749
Vulnerability details
Under specific circumstances SAP Master Data Management, versions - 710, 710.750, allows an unauthorized attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing 'traverse to parent directory' are passed through to the file APIs. Due…
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to this Directory Traversal vulnerability the attacker could read content of arbitrary files on the remote server and expose sensitive data.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.