CVE-2017-16691

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Published 2017-12-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
5.8
VIR risk
6.5

Description

SAP Note Assistant tool (SAP BASIS from 7.00 to 7.02, from 7.10 to 7.11, 7.30, 7.31,7.40, from 7.50 to 7.52) supports upload of digitally signed note file of type 'SAR'. The digital signature verification is done together with the extraction of note file contained in the SAR archive. It is possible to append a tampered file to the SAR archive using SAPCAR tool and during the extraction, digital signature verification fails but the tampered file is extracted.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cna@sap.com — https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2546220

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cna@sap.com — https://blogs.sap.com/2017/12/12/sap-security-patch-day-december-2017/

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.00
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.01
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.02
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.10
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.11
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.30
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.31
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.40
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.50
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.51
sapbusiness_application_software_integrated_solution7.52

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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