SAP Unknown Default Password for TMSADM

Authors: Dmitry Gutsko, Positive Research

SAP default passwords are nothing new. The top five default passwords are presented in many books and articles on security issues. One would hardly find anything new on this topic.

Carrying out SAP security audit for a client, we came across an unknown password of the user TMSADM. The password was displayed by the system itself: during the default accounts analysis, the following results were obtained in the known report RSUSR003.

The default password for TMSADM — PASSWORD — really is well known, but this is the first time I have seen the password $1Pawd2&. Let's sort it out...

The first thing that comes to your mind is to search on the Internet. Google gives two references. The SAP website, six. None of them clarifies the matter: the mysterious password is mainly discovered in published fragments of the ABAP code.

Surprise for Network Resources from kernel32 (MS12-081, Detailed Analysis of Vulnerability in Microsoft File Handling Component)

Microsoft issued a bulletin related to a vulnerability in Microsoft File Handling Component on December 11, 2012. The vulnerability was rated critical and assigned the category Remote Code Execution. Remote code execution is carried out, when a user opens a shared network resource with specially crafted contents. This report provides exploitation details.

The results are based on Windows XP SP3 x86. The vulnerability itself is contained in the functions FindFirstFileExW and FindNextFileExW of the library kernel32.dll, which copy data received from the native function NtQueryDirectoryFile with the help of memmove. The problem is that a number received from NtQueryDirectoryFile is used as the size of a source buffer for the copy function, however, it may happen that the size of a destination buffer can be smaller than the result of NtQueryDirectoryFile.