Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5997

Title: Sap Sap Kernel RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5997.

CWE Category CWE-772

Published Date Feb 15, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.74%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5997: The SAP Message Server HTTP daemon in SAP KERNEL 7.21-7.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process crash) via multiple msgserver/group?group= requests with a crafted size of the group parameter, aka SAP Security Note 2358972.

Impacted Vendors

sap 1

Reference Links

https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/ https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns