How severe is CVE-2017-12637?

CVE-2017-12637 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 95.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2017-12637: SAP NetWeaver Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

SAP NetWeaver Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-03-19

Remediation due

2025-04-09

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
SAP users must have an account to log in and access the patch: https://me.sap.com/notes/3476549 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12637

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in scheduler/ui/js/ffffffffbca41eb4/UIUtilJavaScriptJS in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java 7.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the query string, as exploited in the wild in August 2017, aka SAP Security Note 2486657.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

1 Links

Other references

https://web.archive.org/web/20170807202056/http://www.sh0w.top/index.php/archives/7/

Record Details

Published

2017-08-07

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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