PT-2018-15595 · Sap · Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform

Published 2018-11-13 · Updated 2018-11-24 · CVE-2018-2479

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BIWorkspace) versions 4.1 and 4.2

Description The issue is related to insufficient encoding of user-controlled inputs, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue.

Recommendations For versions 4.1 and 4.2, ensure proper encoding of user-controlled inputs to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-2479

Affected Products

Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2479 · Security Note
• https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=503809832 · Vendor Advisory
• https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2676094 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-2479 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/105902 · Note