Skip links
Picture of Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

CVE-2018-2472 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP Web Intelligence DHTML client, SAP security note 2667103

SAP Note 2667103

SAP security note 2667103, "[CVE-2018-2472] Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP Web Intelligence DHTML client". Below are the symptom and the SAP recommended solution.

Description

Symptom

SAP Web Intelligence DHTML client does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Solution

This issue has been mitigated by sanitizing user inputs. For the Business Intelligence Platform maintenance schedule and strategy, see Knowledge Base Article 2144559.

Reason and prerequisites

The attacker must be logged in with a privileged user account to modify the document and insert malicious scripts.

CVSS

Score 5.4/10 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Full note on SAP: SAP Support Launchpad note 2667103

Detailed exploitation and proof-of-concept material for this note is maintained in the RedRays Security Platform. For access, contact [email protected].

Explore More