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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

CVE-2019-0396 Missing XML Validation vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), SAP security note 2814007

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface) does not sufficiently validate an XML document accepted from an untrusted source.
An attacker can craft a message that contains malicious elements that will not be correctly filtered by Web Intelligence HTML interface in some specific worklfows.

Some well-known impacts of Missing XML Validation vulnerability are –

  • arbitrary files retrieval from the server
  • denial-of-service conditions in successful exploits

Available fix and Supported packages

  • ENTERPRISE | 410 | 410
  • ENTERPRISE | 420 | 420
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP012 | 000200
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP006 | 001000
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP007 | 000500
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP008 | 000000

Affected component

    BI-RA-WBI-FE-HTM
    HTML Front End

CVSS

Score: 7.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

PoC

Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2814007

TAGS

#&65279-XXE
#XML-input-parsing
#WebI
#&160-CVE-2019-0396

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