Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate with high-privilege SAP PI credentials
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DeliveryCraft SOAP request with deeply nested XML entity definitions
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ExploitSubmit request to SOAP Adapter endpoint
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ExecutionParser performs exponential entity expansion
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PersistTemporary CPU spike on integration host
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ImpactTransient degradation of SOAP message processing responsiveness
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A02:2025 - Security Misconfiguration
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration XML entity recursion limits
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated user with high-privilege access (PR:H per CVSS) to the SAP Process Integration SOAP Adapter interface. High attack complexity (AC:H) implies that specific conditions - such as particular configuration states or timing constraints in the adapter's XML processing pipeline - must also be met. The impact is limited to transient, low-severity availability degradation (A:L); there is no path to confidentiality or integrity compromise. Factors limiting exploitation include: the attacker must already hold elevated SAP credentials, the availability degradation is only temporary and low-severity, and the attack complexity barrier reduces the likelihood of reliable exploitation even by insiders. |
| Impact | The overall risk profile here is very low, and even a mid-sized municipal IT team in legnica managing SAP PI deployments would not need to treat this as an emergency compared to other vulnerability workloads. The CVSS 2.2 score is driven by three significant limiting factors: the attacker must already hold high privileges (PR:H), exploitation requires high attack complexity (AC:H), and the maximum impact is only a transient, low-severity availability degradation (A:L) with no confidentiality or integrity impact (C:N, I:N). No EPSS data was supplied, but given the privilege barrier and attack complexity, exploitation probability would be expected to be extremely low. No KEV listing and no public POC code have been identified. The threat model is essentially: a rogue or compromised high-privilege SAP user attempts a slow-moving denial-of-service. This is not an attack reachable by unauthenticated external actors. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A high-privilege SAP PI user - such as a compromised integration developer or rogue admin - constructs a SOAP message body containing deeply nested XML entity definitions (an XML bomb) and submits it to the SOAP Adapter endpoint. The XML parser recursively expands the entity tree, spiking CPU on the SAP PI host and temporarily slowing message processing for other integration scenarios. No public exploit code has been identified, and the attack requires both high-privilege credentials and deliberate crafting of the payload. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 08, 2026
Transient CPU exhaustion in SAP Process Integration's SOAP Adapter allows a privileged authenticated user to craft SOAP requests containing deeply nested XML entity definitions (CWE-776, 'XML Bomb' class), temporarily degrading system responsiveness. The vulnerability scores CVSS 2.2, reflecting that exploitation requires high privileges, high attack complexity, and yields only low availability impact with zero confidentiality or integrity consequences. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified, placing this firmly in the low-priority tier despite network reachability.
RemediationAI
Apply the fix delivered via SAP Security Note 3736494, accessible through the SAP Support Portal at https://me.sap.com/notes/3736494; no specific patched version number was enumerated in the advisory data. An exact patched version has not been independently confirmed from available references - consult the note directly for applicable kernel, support package, or transport details. As a compensating control, administrators should audit and minimize the set of users holding high-privilege access to the SOAP Adapter configuration and messaging interfaces, reducing the pool of actors who could exploit this path. Rate-limiting or WAF-level XML payload size restrictions at the network perimeter may also reduce exposure, though these may interfere with legitimate large SOAP message flows.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs - covers the 'Billion Laughs' / XML entity expansion class of attacks. An XML parser that processes DTD entity definitions without enforcing recursion depth or expansion count limits can be forced to do exponential work when presented with a carefully nested payload. The affected component is the SOAP Adapter within SAP Process Integration (SAP PI/PO), which handles XML-based SOAP messaging between integrated enterprise systems. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:sap_se:sap_process_integration_(soap_adapter):*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* with a wildcard version range indicates all currently tracked releases are affected. The adapter's XML parsing layer apparently lacks sufficient entity expansion guards, allowing a single malformed SOAP message to spike CPU momentarily.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Network-reachable SOAP endpoint but requires high privileges and specific conditions; only transient low availability impact, zero confidentiality or integrity effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (sap).
CVSS VectorVendor: sap
DescriptionCVE.org
SAP Process Integration (SOAP Adapter) allows a privileged user to send specially crafted requests containing deeply nested entity definitions, which under certain conditions could temporarily increase processor load and degrade system responsiveness. Successful exploitation results in low impact on availability with no impact on confidentiality and integrity.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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EUVD-2026-72574
GHSA-jrvr-c2h4-473q
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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