CVE-2023-36917

Summary

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform - version 420, 430, allows an unauthorized attacker who had hijacked a user session, to be able to bypass the victim’s old password via brute force, due to unrestricted rate limit for password change functionality. Although the attack has no impact on integrity loss or system availability, this could lead to an attacker to completely takeover a victim’s account.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
SAP_SESAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform4.20affected
SAP_SESAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform430affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-307: CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References