VDB-153152 · CVE-2020-6231 · GCVE-0-2020-6231

SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.2. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-6231. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.2 (Business Process Management Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), version 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

The weakness was disclosed 04/14/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-6231 since 01/08/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/15/2020). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Productinfo

Type

Business Process Management Software

Vendor

Name

Business Intelligence Platform

Version

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.sap.com/

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0

VulDB Base Score: 4.1
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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NVD Base Score: 5.4
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CNA Base Score: 5.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/08/2020 🔍
04/14/2020 +97 days 🔍
04/15/2020 +1 days 🔍
05/09/2025 +1850 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: sap.com

Advisory: launchpad.support.sap.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2020-6231 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-6231
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-153152
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150716
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/15/2020 08:31
Updated: 05/09/2025 03:43
Changes: 04/15/2020 08:31 (35), 04/15/2020 08:36 (12), 05/19/2024 09:46 (16), 05/19/2024 09:48 (19), 05/09/2025 03:43 (3)
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