CVE-2020-6208: sap se sap business objects business intelligence platform (crystal reports) Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-6208 is a high (CVSS 8.2) Use After Free vulnerability in sap se sap business objects business intelligence platform (crystal reports). EPSS estimates a 1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 10-03-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Crystal Reports), versions- 4.1, 4.2, allows an attacker with basic authorization to inject code that can be executed by the application and thus allowing the attacker to control the behaviour of the application, leading to Remote Code Execution. Although the mode of attack is only Local, multiple applications can be impacted as a result of the vulnerability.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.