Advisory
On 14.04.2020 a security relevant correction has been released by SAP SE. The manufacturer resolves an issue within BI/BO platform.
SAP Note 2863731 addresses "[CVE-2020-6219] Deserialization of Untrusted Data in SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (CrystalReports WebForm Viewer)" to prevent code injection with a hot news risk for exploitation.
A workaround does not exist, according to SAP Security Advisory team. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance, the team suggests.
Risk specification
This note has been re-released with updated information - Crystal reports web form viewer allows an attacker with basic authorization to perform deserialization attack in the application, leading to a code injection. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the application.Solution
The data between server and client has now been encrypted to ensure secure information transmission. This ensures that data is no longer tampered during deserialization.
Affected System
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence suite is an analytics platform allowing SAP customers to make better decisions based on their business data. SAP BI is a module meant for producing business insights and expands its power in combination with HANA DB and also exists as BW/4 HANA. Due to processing sensitive business data, the Data security is of utmost importance.
The advisory is valid for
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