Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2016-010:
Information Disclosure vulnerability in SAP ASE Installer

Published: 05/26/2016
Version: 1.0

Vendor: SAP (www.sap.com)
Product: Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
Version affected: 16.0 SP02 PL02 and prior

Product description:
Relational database management system for UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms.

Finding 1: Cleartext SCC repository password logged in publicly readable file 
Credit: Martin Rakhmanov of Trustwave 
CVE: CVE-2016-5088

SAP ASE 16.0 SP02 PL02 SCC repository password logging vulnerability

SCC password is logged in cleartext in publicly readable file 
sybuninstall/ASESuite/installvariables.properties under SYBASE home:

...
CONFIG_SCC_REPOSITORY_PWD=p@ssword1
...

Unprivileged local users can read CONFIG_SCC_REPOSITORY_PWD value from the file 
mentioned and gain access to SCC repository.


Remediation Steps:
Apply the SAP ASE 16.0 SP02 PL03 vendor supplied patch.  Please refer to SAP 
Security Note 2296722 for additional information.


Revision History:
01/06/2016 - Vulnerability disclosed to vendor
05/10/2016 - Patch released by vendor
05/26/2016 - Advisory published


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