This SAP Security Note addresses below reported vulnerabilities identified in SAP Fiori Launchpad’s NewsTile Application. The vulnerability details along with their CVE relevant information can be found below.

Server-Side Request Forgery Attack : 

SAP Fiori Launchpad News tile Application allows an unauthorized attacker to send a crafted request to a vulnerable web application. It is usually used to target internal systems behind firewalls that are normally inaccessible to an attacker from the external network to retrieve sensitive / confidential resources which are otherwise restricted for internal usage only, resulting in a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability.

• CVE-2020-26815
• CVSS: 8.6; CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reflected Cross-Site scripting : 

An unauthorized attacker can use SAP Fiori Launchpad News tile Application to send malicious code, to a different end user (victim), because News tile does not sufficiently encode user controlled inputs, resulting in Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Information maintained in the victim’s web browser can be read, modified, and sent to the attacker. The malicious code cannot significantly impact the victim’s browser and the victim can easily close the browser tab to terminate it.

• CVE-2020-26825
• CVSS: 6.1; CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N