SAP Patches Critical ICM2SHELL and ProxyGate Vulnerabilities Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

SAP has released 42 new and updated security notes addressing nine critical-severity vulnerabilities across its enterprise software portfolio. The most severe issues affect NetWeaver, Web Dispatcher, and Gateway components, including the ICM2SHELL flaw that permits remote code execution as <sid>adm through specially crafted WebSocket message sequences. Onapsis provided SAP with a working exploit demonstrating full unauthenticated remote code execution and denial-of-service conditions across multiple kernel releases. Another maximum-severity issue, ProxyGate (CVE-2026-89103), allows attackers to bypass access-control lists and execute OS commands without credentials by spoofing internal network requests. Additional critical fixes address missing authentication in SAML2 and memory corruption bugs in S4CRM, BusinessObjects, and Web Dispatcher. SAP also updated notes related to previously disclosed PHP2Shell and Node2Shell issues in its Business AI Platform.

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SAP on Tuesday announced the release of 42 new and updated security notes, including nine that resolve critical-severity vulnerabilities. Four of SAP’s new security notes address maximum-severity flaws in NetWeaver (Internet Communication Manager (ICM) and SAML2 Service Provider), Web Dispatcher, and Gateway.

The ICM and Web Dispatcher flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-76964 and CVE-2026-89126, are a single weakness in the SAP kernel component that receives HTTP, HTTPS, and WebSocket traffic. According to Onapsis, which calls the security defect ICM2SHELL, the issue is related to reassembling large WebSocket messages, which may be split into fragments during a server-browser exchange and then put together by the receiver.

“A specially crafted sequence of WebSocket messages makes the ICM or the WD write attacker-controlled data past the end of the memory it reserved for the connection. Depending on how that data is shaped, the result is either an immediate crash of the process or controlled corruption of its memory,” Onapsis explains. ICM2SHELL could allow an attacker to execute operating system commands with adm privileges.

“This is not a theoretical outcome. The Onapsis Research Labs provided SAP a working exploit that achieves full, unauthenticated remote code execution end to end, running arbitrary commands as adm on the target system. The denial-of-service condition, in turn, reproduced on every SAP Kernel release tested,” Onapsis says.

The max-severity SAP Gateway flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-89103 and referred to as ProxyGate, could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) without user interaction. It is related to the prxyinfo access-control list, which should restrict requests to trusted networks only. However, if left open, it allows an attacker to send a series of requests that appear to be originating from an internal network, tricking the gateway into accepting them.

This allows an attacker to execute OS commands with the adm privileges and gain full control over the SAP system, without providing a username, password, or certificate. “Because the flaw is in the SAP kernel, it affects a broad range of releases, including kernel versions that are already out of maintenance. Further, the gateway runs not only on ABAP but also on AS Java, dual-stack, and standalone-gateway systems,” Onapsis explains.

SAP also resolved a max-severity missing authentication bug in NetWeaver (CVE-2026-120017) that, in certain configurations, could allow unauthenticated attackers to submit specially crafted data and impersonate arbitrary users, which could lead to full system compromise.

The remaining five critical notes in SAP’s November 2026 bulletin address vulnerabilities in NetWeaver (CVE-2026-109803 and CVE-2026-76965), S4CRM (CVE-2026-109795), Web Dispatcher (CVE-2026-89119), and BusinessObjects (CVE-2026-109798).

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