Security Resilience

CVE-2023-36921

Sap Solution Manager 7.20

Published
11 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0066 50th percentile
Risk Priority 55 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-36921 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CWE-644) vulnerability in Sap Solution Manager. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique OS Credential Dumping (T1003); ranked in the top 50% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

SAP Solution Manager (Diagnostics agent) - version 7.20, allows an attacker to tamper with headers in a client request. This misleads SAP Diagnostics Agent to serve poisoned content to the server. On successful exploitation, the attacker can cause a limited…

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impact on confidentiality and availability of the application.

CWE(s)
CWE-644CWE-116

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1003 OS Credential Dumping Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump credentials to obtain account login and credential material, normally in the form of a hash or a clear text password.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.001 LSASS Memory Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to access credential material stored in the process memory of the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS).
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.004 LSA Secrets Credential Access
Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different credential materials, such as credentials for service accounts.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.007 Proc Filesystem Credential Access
Adversaries may gather credentials from the proc filesystem or `/proc`.
attack.mitre.org →
T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow Credential Access
Adversaries may attempt to dump the contents of <code>/etc/passwd</code> and <code>/etc/shadow</code> to enable offline password cracking.
attack.mitre.org →
T1011 Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium Exfiltration
Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a different network medium than the command and control channel.
attack.mitre.org →
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-0024Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-23852Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-0025Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-36925Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-27893Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-49587Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2020-6207Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2023-23855Same product: Sap Solution Manager
CVE-2026-23686Same vendor: Sap
CVE-2023-26289Shared CWE-116, CWE-644

Affected Assets

sap
solution manager
7.20

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)

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Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V4.2.3

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.

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.

PR.PS-06 partial match
blocks

Secure SDLC practices directly require proper output encoding and header sanitization to prevent scripting injection.

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.5.24 Information security incident management planning and preparation partial match
removes
A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
blocks

Secure development lifecycle mandates input validation and output encoding that directly prevents header-injection flaws.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
blocks

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including resilience against injections) be identified and specified during development; it does not itself neutralize HTTP header syntax or stop exploitation of CWE-644

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (including data validation/sanitization, distrust external input, defense-in-depth, secure architecture reviews against attack patterns) that reach output encoding and header sanitization for this XSS-like weakness in many but not all cases; a bounded remainder exists for non-web or non-HTTP contexts and incomplete application of the principles.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards require proper escaping or rejection of scripting syntax in HTTP headers.

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

Security testing catches header-injection issues before release, covering most of the weakness.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-116, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References