CVE-2021-40495 (GCVE-0-2021-40495)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-12 14:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
There are multiple Denial-of Service vulnerabilities in SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and ABAP Platform - versions 740, 750, 751, 752, 753, 754, 755. An unauthorized attacker can use the public SICF service /sap/public/bc/abap to reduce the performance of SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP and ABAP Platform.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- Denial of Service
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.acti… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3099011 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP SE | SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and ABAP Platform |
Affected:
< 740
Affected: < 750 Affected: < 751 Affected: < 752 Affected: < 753 Affected: < 754 Affected: < 755 |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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