# CVE-2024-6697: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

> An attacker can cause a denial of service in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server by exploiting improper handling of insufficient permissions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 20 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vp3x-fq4p-vf29

## What is CVE-2024-6697?

CVE-2024-6697 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 19 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state. (CWE-280)

 

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server versions before 10.2.0.0 and 9.3.0.9, including 8.3.x, do not handle invalid and missing permissions correctly, resulting in a denial of service.

 

An adversary leverages a legitimate capability of an application in such a way as to achieve a negative technical impact.

Weakness: CWE-280 (Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6697?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-6697?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6697 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6697 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6697 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 19 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6697/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6697/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6697
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6697
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6697

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6697/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.