Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-36919

Sap Enable Now

Published
11 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0048 39th percentile
Risk Priority 45 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-36919 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies (CWE-213) vulnerability in Sap Enable Now. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Content Injection (T1659); ranked at the 39th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

In SAP Enable Now - versions WPB_MANAGER 1.0, WPB_MANAGER_CE 10, WPB_MANAGER_HANA 10, ENABLE_NOW_CONSUMP_DEL 1704, the Referrer-Policy response header is not implemented, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to obtain referrer details, resulting in information disclosure.

CWE(s)
CWE-213CWE-116

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1659 Content Injection Initial Access
Adversaries may gain access and continuously communicate with victims by injecting malicious content into systems through online network traffic.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1039 Data from Network Shared Drive Collection
Adversaries may search network shares on computers they have compromised to find files of interest.
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T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution
Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.
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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

sap
enable now
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

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Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

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Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 4 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V1.1.2
  • V1.2.1
  • V1.2.3
  • V4.1.2

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.

PE-22 Component Marking
addresses: CWE-213

Marking hardware components with the permitted impact or classification level directly supports consistent policy enforcement, reducing the chance that sensitive data is processed on an incompatible component and thereby exposed.

PT-2 Authority to Process Personally Identifiable Information
addresses: CWE-213

Demands documented authority and policy alignment for PII processing, reducing exposure due to incompatible or absent policies.

PT-3 Personally Identifiable Information Processing Purposes
addresses: CWE-213

Directly enforces purpose compatibility and policy alignment for PII processing, preventing exposure from incompatible policies.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

GV.OC-02 mostly match
prevents

Understanding stakeholder needs directly surfaces incompatible sensitivity expectations that produce the exposure.

GV.PO-01 mostly match
prevents

Establishing risk-management policy based on organizational context is the primary mechanism for aligning divergent sensitivity rules.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require proper output encoding to prevent injection and message malformation.

GV.OC-03 partial match
prevents

Regulatory and privacy obligations often define the conflicting sensitivity views that the weakness fails to reconcile.

GV.PO-02 partial match
prevents

Periodic policy review can detect and correct stakeholder-policy mismatches before they cause exposure.

PR.AA-05 partial match
prevents

Defining and enforcing access policy is one concrete place where incompatible sensitivity decisions manifest as unauthorized disclosure.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.5.12 Classification of information mostly match
prevents

Classification directly addresses mismatched sensitivity views by defining what must be protected.

A.5.31 Legal, statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements mostly match
prevents

Legal and contractual requirements often impose stricter sensitivity rules than developer policy.

A.5.34 Privacy and protection of PII mostly match
prevents

PII protection explicitly reconciles developer exposure with data-subject or regulator expectations.

A.8.28 Secure coding mostly match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly require correct output encoding and escaping to preserve message structure.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect missing or incorrect encoding but does not itself implement the control.

A.5.1 Policies for information security partial match
prevents

High-level policy can mandate consistent handling of sensitive data across stakeholder expectations.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Ubuntu 24.04 (1 rule)
  • V-270708 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS must be configured so that remote X connections are disabled, unless to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements. prevents CWE-213
Windows Server 2019 (1 rule)
  • V-205757 Windows Server 2019 Debug programs: user right must only be assigned to the Administrators group. prevents CWE-213

References