What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-8913

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The Visual Composer VC70RUNTIME component in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document in a request to irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.visualcomposer.BIKit.default, aka SAP Security Note 2386873.

Affected products

• SAP NetWeaver AS Java: 7.50

References

• https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-17-007-sap-netweaver-java-7-5-xxe-visual-composer-vc70runtime/
• https://erpscan.io/press-center/blog/sap-cyber-threat-intelligence-report-february-2017/
• https://erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-17-007-sap-netweaver-java-7-5-xxe-visual-composer-vc70runtime/
• https://erpscan.io/press-center/blog/sap-cyber-threat-intelligence-report-february-2017/

Get alerted when CVE-2017-8913 or the next vulnerability affects your stack