Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with low-privilege account
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DeliveryIdentify co-exploitable injection vulnerability
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ExploitCraft and plant malicious script payload
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ExecutionDeliver link or trigger to privileged victim user
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PersistVictim loads page, browser executes injected script
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ImpactExfiltrate session data or perform unauthorised action
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Clickjacking prevention, X-Frame-Options
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to hold an authenticated low-privilege account on SAP Data Services Management Console (PR:L per CVSS vector). High attack complexity (AC:H) is imposed by the chaining requirement: the CSP weakness alone is not exploitable - a second, distinct vulnerability capable of injecting content into the application must also be present and reachable. User interaction (UI:R) is mandatory - a victim user with sufficient privileges must actively visit or interact with the attacker-influenced page in their browser session. Exploitation is therefore bounded by: authenticated attacker access, the concurrent presence and exploitability of a separate injection vulnerability, and a social engineering or session-targeting step to involve a victim user. Default-configuration deployments without a co-present XSS or injection flaw are not directly exploitable via this CSP weakness alone. |
| Impact | The CVSS base score of 3.7 (Low) with vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N accurately reflects the constrained exploitability of this issue: high attack complexity is warranted because the CSP weakness cannot be exploited in isolation - it requires chaining with a separate vulnerability to achieve script injection. Authenticated access (PR:L) and user interaction (UI:R) are mandatory, further limiting the realistic attacker population to insiders or compromised accounts. No EPSS score was provided in source intelligence, and the vulnerability carries no CISA KEV designation and no known public exploit code, placing its real-world priority well below headline severity. The low C:L/I:L impact ceiling means even successful exploitation yields limited data exposure or tamper capability - session hijacking or credential theft would require additional conditions. This is a defense-in-depth control gap rather than an immediately weaponizable flaw; the absence of a strong CSP increases the blast radius of any future XSS vulnerability discovered in the same product. Even an organisation with a modest SAP footprint should treat it as a scheduled patch-cycle item rather than emergency response, consistent with SAP's own patch day disclosure cadence. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated attacker with low-privilege access to the Management Console identifies a separate injection point - such as a stored XSS sink in a data services job or dataset name field - that the absent CSP would otherwise have neutralised. The attacker crafts a payload that injects a script tag or event handler, then socially engineers or waits for an administrator-level user to navigate to the affected page, triggering script execution in the admin's browser session and potentially harvesting session tokens or performing administrative actions on behalf of the victim. No public proof-of-concept exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 11, 2026
SAP Data Services Management Console versions 4.3 and 2025 expose an overly permissive Content Security Policy that omits key restrictive directives, creating a prerequisite condition for script injection attacks within the application context. An authenticated attacker who also controls or exploits a separate vulnerability - such as a stored or reflected XSS vector - can leverage the absent CSP controls to execute malicious scripts in a victim user's browser session. Confidentiality and integrity suffer limited impact; availability is unaffected. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
The primary remediation is to apply the fix documented in SAP Security Note 3739913, available at https://me.sap.com/notes/3739913, which should introduce corrective CSP directives for the Management Console. Customers should review the SAP Security Patch Day guidance at https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday for scheduling context. An exact patched version number is not independently confirmed from available intelligence beyond the note reference - customers should verify the corrected build identifier directly from the SAP Support Portal before deployment. As a compensating control prior to patching, network access to the Management Console should be restricted to trusted internal segments or VPN-only access, reducing the exposed attack surface for any chained XSS scenario. Browser-level policy enforcement via web application firewall rules that inject or enforce a strict CSP header (e.g., script-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none') at the reverse proxy layer is a viable interim measure, though it may interfere with legitimate console functionality and requires testing before broad deployment.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Content Security Policy (CSP) is a browser-enforced HTTP response header mechanism that restricts which sources can execute scripts, load frames, or inject content into a page. When directives such as script-src, default-src, or frame-ancestors are absent or overly broad, the browser applies no meaningful restrictions, negating the primary defense against cross-site scripting and UI-redressing attacks. CWE-1021 - Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames - identifies the root cause class here: the application fails to constrain how its own rendered interface can be overlaid or manipulated by injected content. The affected product, identified via CPE cpe:2.3:a:sap_se:sap_data_services_management_console:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, is SAP's browser-based management console for its Data Services ETL and data integration platform, deployed on-premise in SAP enterprise environments. The tagging of XSS alongside CWE-1021 suggests the CSP gap is the enabler for script injection rather than a standalone UI-redressing flaw.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Network-accessible console, but chaining requirement and mandatory user interaction justify AC:H and UI:R; authenticated low-privilege access required; no availability impact applies.
Primary rating from Vendor (sap).
CVSS VectorVendor: sap
DescriptionCVE.org
SAP Data Services Management Console allows an overly permissive Content Security Policy (CSP) configuration and lacks certain restrictive directives, which could enable an authenticated malicious user to leverage this weakness in combination with another vulnerability to inject and execute malicious scripts within the application's context. Successful exploitation may result in a low impact on confidentiality and integrity, with no impact on the availability of the application.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.
EUVD-2026-55862
GHSA-x3p8-w664-v5hj
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