CVE-2018-17861 — A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP J2EE Engine/7

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP J2EE Engine/7.01/Portal/EPP allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the wsdlLib parameter to /ctcprotocol/Protocol. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

01What is this vulnerability?

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP J2EE Engine/7.01/Portal/EPP allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the wsdlLib parameter to /ctcprotocol/Protocol. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2021-08-09T18:30:35.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:01:13.299Z

09References

• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151945/SAP-J2EE-Engine-7.01-Portal-EPP-Prot…
• seclists.org — https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/4
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/6