RECON could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of SAP enterprise applications through the web interface.
The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert on a critical vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java. The vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to use HTTP for takeover of applications built using NetWeaver.
The vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287, involves a lack of authentication in a web component of NetWeaver AS Java. Because of the nature of the components, applications across a broad swath of business-critical enterprise SAP installations could be affected.
Dubbed "Remote Exploitable Code on Netweaver" (RECON) by the researchers at Onapsis who discovered it, the vulnerability has been given a CVSS score of 10, the most critical.
SAP has issued a patch for the vulnerability. Both SAP and CISA urge SAP customers to apply the patch immediately.
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