CVE-2017-16678

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Published 2017-12-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Knowledge Management Configuration Service, EPBC and EPBC2 from 7.00 to 7.02; KMC-BC 7.30, 7.31, 7.40 and 7.50, that allows an attacker to manipulate the vulnerable application to send crafted requests on behalf of the application.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

57%

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
sap	netweaver_knowledge_management_configuration_service	`-`
sap	epbc	`{"startIncluding":"7.00","endIncluding":"7.02"}`
sap	epbc2	`{"startIncluding":"7.00","endIncluding":"7.02"}`
sap	kmc-bc	`7.30`
sap	kmc-bc	`7.31`
sap	kmc-bc	`7.40`
sap	kmc-bc	`7.50`

References

CWEs

CWE-918

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

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