Advisory

On 12.12.2023 a security relevant correction has been released by SAP SE. The manufacturer resolves an issue within BI/BO platform.

SAP Note 3382353 addresses "[CVE-2023-42478] Cross site scripting vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform" to prevent cross-site scripting (xss) with a high risk for exploitation.

A workaround does exist, according to SAP Security Advisory team. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance, the team suggests.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is the name of a class of security vulnerabilities that can occur in web-based applications. XSS combines all vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to inject HTML Markup and/or JavaScript into the front end of the affected web application.

XSS attacks can occur whenever the application dynamically creates its HTML/JavaScript/CSS content, which is passed to the user's web browser, and attacker-controlled values are used in this process. If these values are included in the generated code without proper validation and encoding, the attacker is able to include arbitrary coding snippets into the application's front end. The code is then rendered by the victim's web browser and interpreted in the victim's current authentication context.

Risk specification

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform does not sufficiently encode user controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Solution

The user input is now properly encoded to prevent a successful XSS attack. Circumstances exist that prevent the timely installation of a patch provided by the manufacturer. In such cases, you may consider applying the suggested workaround as a temporary or compensating mitigation: "Option 1: To prevent user from uploading document containing malicious content in global.properties file, update the property upload.file.allowed.formats value to exclude the file extension of the document which needs to be restricted. Option 2:Cross-site scripting/request forgery filter engine on IDS/IPS/firewall systems. ".

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 420 ⁸⁷
ENTERPRISE 430 ⁷⁵

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Notifications

Affected system BI/BO platform

CVSS 7.5

Component BI-BIP-ADM

Patch Day2023-12

Released on2023/12/12

SAP Note 3382353

Workaround Yes

Advisory

Risk specification

Solution

Affected System

Disclaimer

_{Affected system}
BI/BO platform

_CVSS
7.5

_Component
BI-BIP-ADM

_{Patch Day}
2023-12

_{Released
on}
2023/12/12

_{SAP Note}
3382353

_Workaround
Yes