Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2021 · Assigned by sap

CVE-2021-42061

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform from SAP SE. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence) - version 420, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This allows a low privileged attacker to retrieve some data from the victim but will never be able to modify the document and publish these modifications to the server. It impacts the "Quick Prompt" workflow.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
SAP SE	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform	< 420

Weakness: CWE-79

References

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3103677 x_refsource_MISC
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PSR/SAP+Security+Patch+Day+-+December+2021 x_refsource_MISC