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CVE-2017-12637: SAP NetWeaver Directory Traversal Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2025-03-19
• EPSS: 95.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• SAP NetWeaver AS Java: 7.50

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170807202056/http://www.sh0w.top/index.php/archives/7/
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-12637

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