CVE-2016-4018

high

Published 2016-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

Description

The Data Provisioning Agent (aka DP Agent) in SAP HANA does not properly restrict access to service functionality, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, gain privileges, and conduct unspecified other attacks via unspecified vectors, aka SAP Security Note 2262742.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
sap	hana	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.