CVE-2017-5997

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

Description

The SAP Message Server HTTP daemon in SAP KERNEL 7.21-7.49 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process crash) via multiple msgserver/group?group= requests with a crafted size of the group parameter, aka SAP Security Note 2358972.

Affected products

SAP Startup Service: 7.21, 7.22, 7.42

References

https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/
https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-16-038-sap-message-server-http-remote-dos/

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