CVE-2020-6245 Code injection in SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An attacker with local access can inject code into SAP Business Objects BI Platform, leading to arbitrary code execution.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-6245?

CVE-2020-6245 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform, published on 12 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform, version 4.2, allows an attacker with access to local instance, to inject file or code that can be executed by the application due to Improper Control of Resource Identifiers.

Weakness: CWE-74, CWE-99

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-6245?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2020-6245?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-6245 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2020-6245 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-6245 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-p6p8-j2vx-pqvh.

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