[Onapsis Security Advisory 2014-032] SAP BusinessObjects Persistent Cross Site Scripting

Onapsis Security Advisory 2014-032: SAP BusinessObjects Persistent Cross
Site Scripting

1. Impact on Business
=====================

By exploiting this vulnerability a remote unauthenticated attacker would
be able to attack other users of the system.

Risk Level: Medium

2. Advisory Information
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- - Public Release Date: 2014-10-08

- - Subscriber Notification Date: 2014-10-08

- - Last Revised: 2014-09-17

- - Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2013-032

- - Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00085

- - Researcher: Will Vandevanter

- - Initial Base CVSS v2:  3.5 (AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

3. Vulnerability Information
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- - Vendor: SAP

- - Affected Components:

  * BussinessObjects Edge 4.0
   (Check SAP Note 1941562 for detailed information on affected releases)

- - Vulnerability Class: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web
Page Generation - Persistent Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79)

- - Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- - Locally Exploitable: No

- - Authentication Required: Yes

- - Detection Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - BizRisk Illustration Module available in Onapsis X1: Yes

- - Original Advisory:
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2014-032


4. Affected Components Description
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Business Objects is part of the Business Intelligence platform from SAP.
It has components that provide performance management, planning,
reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management.

Every Business Objects installation provides a web service to interact
with different platform services.


5. Vulnerability Details
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BusinessObjects BI "Send to Inbox" functionality can be abused by an
attacker, allowing them to modify displayed application content without
authorization, and to potentially obtain authentication information from
other legitimate users.

6. Solution
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SAP has released SAP Note 1941562 which provide patched versions of the
affected components.

The patches can be downloaded from
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1941562.

Onapsis strongly recommends SAP customers to download the related
security fixes and apply them to the affected components in order to
reduce business risks.


7. Report Timeline
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2014-01-16: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP AG.
2014-01-17: SAP confirms having the information of vulnerability.
2014-06-10: SAP releases security patches.
2014-10-08: Onapsis notifies availability of security advisory.



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About Onapsis, Inc.
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