High Severity
Affected system
SAP...
CVSS
7.7
Component
BI-RA-WBI-BE
Patch Day
2024-10
Released on
2024/10/08
SAP Note
3478615
Workaround
Yes
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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 3478615 was released on 08.10.2024 and deals with "[CVE-2024-37179] Insecure File Operations vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence)" within SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve insecure file operations vulnerability with a high potential for exploitation in component BI-RA-WBI-BE.

According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround exists. It is advisable to implement the correction as implement patch.

Risk specification

The personal data provider feature did not have any restriction on the directories from which data was fetched.

Solution

After the patch is installed, to restrict access to personal data providers, create a file PersonalFile_AllowList.txt in folder : Windows: $InstallDir\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\config Linux: $InstallDir/sap_bobj/enterprise_xi40/linux_x64/config The file must contain the list of folders that can contain personal data providers. There must be one folder per line. For Business Intelligence Platform maintenance schedule and strategy see the Knowledge Base Article 2144559 in References section This issue is fixed in the patches listed in the “Support Packages & Patches”.  Alternativly, the consulting team has proposed the following: "No workaround available". The suggestion may be considered, as a workaround or compensating mitigation. We recommend installing/applying the correction wherever possible and as soon as possible. Base your decision on whether or not to apply the patch on your companies and systems risk perspective and consider the provided CVSS 7.7 score.

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