SAP Business Process Automation (BPA) By Redwood, 9.0, 9.1, allows an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provi…

published 2018-03-14 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-14221

cvss: 4.3; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits: 0; none known

SAP Business Process Automation (BPA) By Redwood, 9.0, 9.1, allows an attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing 'traverse to parent directory' are passed through to the file APIs.

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Exploit prediction

1.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.0	4.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

SAP SE SAP Business Process Automation (BPA) By Redwood

Classification

Weakness

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

blogs.sap.com /2018/03/13/sap-security-patch-day-march-2018/
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/103371
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
launchpad.support.sap.com /#/notes/2555667
permissions-required

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-2366
NVD CVE-2018-2366

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