VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7241

critical
Published 2017-09-06 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in SAP Netweaver before 7.01.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38261 webapps xml
Lukasz Miedzinski · 2015-09-22

SAP NetWeaver < 7.01 - XML External Entity Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sap sapnetweaver{"endIncluding":"7.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.