Advisory
SAP takes the security of its vast product portfolio very seriously and thus releases security fixes for
vulnerabilities reported by external researchers and their customers every second Tuesday of the month.
SAP Note 2921615
was released on
11.08.2020 and deals with
"BI Platform stores SAP BW Authentication Password as clear text" within BI/BO platform.
We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve
weak security function / cryptographic algorithm
with a
medium potential for exploitation
in component BI-BIP-SRV.
According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.
Risk specification
SAP BI Platform Entitlement systems stores the BW Authentication password in clear text.Solution
The password is no longer stored in clear text.
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
- ENTERPRISE 410 15
- ENTERPRISE 420 87
- ENTERPRISE 430 75
