CVE-2014-6283

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.7 before SP122 or SP63, 15.5 before ESD#5.4, and 15.0.3 before ESD#4.4 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote authenticated database users to (1) overwrite the master encryption key or (2) trigger a buffer overflow via a crafted RPC message to the hacmpmsgxchg function, and possibly other vectors.

Affected products

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise: 15.0.3, 15.5, 15.7

References

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2014/09/cve-2014-6283-sap-ase-missing-authorization-checks-and-arbitrary-code-execution.html
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55451
http://secunia.com/advisories/61238
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99935
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2044220
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2014-013.txt
http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2014/09/cve-2014-6283-sap-ase-missing-authorization-checks-and-arbitrary-code-execution.html
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55451
http://secunia.com/advisories/61238
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99935
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2044220
https://www3.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2014-013.txt

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