Medium severity · published Apr 14, 2020
CVE-2020-6231
SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), version 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site…
5.4
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BB
Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform · Sap
4.2 · source: NVD
Affected product
BB
Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform
Sap
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6231
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-6231
Permissions Required
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2879132
Vendor Advisory
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=544214202
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