Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SAP1773147083)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of SAP's Vulnerability and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts SAP Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the SAP breach identified under incident ID SAP1773147083.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of SAP's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 138981 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 833 and after the incident was 830 with a difference of -3 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on SAP and their customers.
SAP recently reported "SAP Releases Critical Security Patches for Multiple Vulnerabilities", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
SAP has issued a security update addressing multiple vulnerabilities across its core platforms, including SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA, Business One, Business Warehouse, and industry-specific applications.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA and Business One.
In response, and began remediation that includes Security patches released via SAP Support Portal, and stakeholders are being briefed through Advisory issued to prioritize patching critical flaws.
The case underscores how and recommending next steps like Prioritize patching FS-QUO and NetWeaver Enterprise Portal flaws and Address remaining high and medium-severity issues in internet-facing and business-critical systems.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating remote code execution (RCE), denial-of-service (DoS), and unauthorized access, Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cVE-2019-17571 (Apache Log4j 1.2 deserialization issue) enables RCE, and Drive-by Compromise (T1189) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating dOM-based XSS in SAP Business One Job Service (CVE-2026-0489). Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in SAP NetWeaver, S/4HANA and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating arbitrary code execution via CVE-2019-17571 (code injection flaw). Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Server Software Component: Web Shell (T1505.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating insecure deserialization in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal Administration and Event Triggered Execution: Application Shimming (T1546.011) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating dLL hijacking in SAP GUI for Windows with GuiXT. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating highly privileged attackers achieve RCE with cross-scope impact (CVE-2026-27685) and Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control (T1548.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating missing authorization checks in NetWeaver AS ABAP, SAP BW, S/4HANA HCM. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating insecure deserialization vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-17571, CVE-2026-27685) and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating doS vulnerability in SAP Supply Chain Management (CVE-2026-27689). Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force: Password Guessing (T1110.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating missing authorization checks in multiple SAP systems and Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files (T1552.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating insecure storage protection in SAP Customer Checkout 2.0. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating missing authorization checks enable unauthorized access and Network Service Scanning (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sSRF in SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP enables internal network probing. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating lateral movement attacks via chained exploits in business-critical systems and Lateral Tool Transfer (T1570) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating rCE vulnerabilities enable arbitrary code execution across SAP platforms. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service (T1499) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating doS vulnerability in SAP Supply Chain Management (CVE-2026-27689), Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating outdated OpenSSL in SAP NetWeaver AS Java (Adobe Document Services), and Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating sQL injection in SAP NetWeaver Feedback Notification (CVE-2026-27684). These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- SAP Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sap/incident/SAP1773147083
- SAP CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sap
- SAP Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/sap1773147083-sap-vulnerability-january-2019/
- SAP CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/sap/history
- SAP CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cyberpress.org/sap-vulnerabilities/
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf