CVE-2022-22536
Published 2022-02-09 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cna@sap.com
Summary
CVE-2022-22536 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in SAP Multiple Products. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 18, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by September 8, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. SAP has 14 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 3 of them linked to ransomware.
All 14 known-exploited SAP vulnerabilities →Description
SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java, ABAP Platform, SAP Content Server 7.53 and SAP Web Dispatcher are vulnerable for request smuggling and request concatenation. An unauthenticated attacker can prepend a victim's request with arbitrary data. This way, the attacker can execute functions impersonating the victim or poison intermediary Web caches. A successful attack could result in complete compromise of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of the system.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: SAP — Multiple Products
Name: SAP Multiple Products HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-08-18 · Due: 2022-09-08
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3123396
- https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/fa865ea4-167e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3123396
- https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/fa865ea4-167e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22536

