CVE-2018-2427: sap businessobjects_business_intelligence Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-2427 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Code Injection vulnerability in sap businessobjects_business_intelligence. EPSS estimates a 1.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 10-07-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite, versions 4.10 and 4.20, and SAP Crystal Reports (version for Visual Studio .NET, Version 2010) allows an attacker to inject code that can be executed by the application. An attacker could thereby control the behaviour of the application.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.