Advisory

On 12.10.2021 a security relevant correction has been released by SAP SE. The manufacturer resolves an issue within BI/BO platform.

SAP Note 3074693 addresses "[CVE-2021-40500] Missing XML Validation in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Crystal Reports)" to prevent information disclosure with a medium 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.

Information disclosure is when an application fails to properly protect sensitive and confidential information from parties that are not supposed to have access to the subject matter in normal circumstances.
Carefully review every information disclosure vulnerablity in regards to disclosure obligations post-GDPR for ‘Personal data’ under the Data Protection Act 2018.

Risk specification

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Crystal Reports) does not perform the necessary XML validation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from the server.

Solution

The XML parser is now configured securely does not allow external entities as a part of incoming XML documents.

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

CRYSTAL REPORTS 42
CRYSTAL REPORTS 43
ENTERPRISE 420 ⁸⁷
ENTERPRISE 430 ⁷⁵

Releated advisories

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Notifications

Affected system BI/BO platform

CVSS 6.9

Component BI-RA-CR-DB

Patch Day2021-10

Released on2021/10/12

SAP Note 3074693

Workaround No

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Affected System

Disclaimer

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BI/BO platform

_CVSS
6.9

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BI-RA-CR-DB

_{Patch Day}
2021-10

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2021/10/12

_{SAP Note}
3074693

_Workaround
No