CVE-2020-6308: sap se sap businessobjects business intelligence platform (web services) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-6308 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in sap se sap businessobjects business intelligence platform (web services). EPSS estimates a 61.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 20-10-2020
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Services) versions - 410, 420, 430, allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary values as CMS parameters to perform lookups on the internal network which is otherwise not accessible externally. On successful exploitation, attacker can scan internal network to determine internal infrastructure and gather information for further attacks like remote file inclusion, retrieve server files, bypass firewall and force the vulnerable server to perform malicious requests, resulting in a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability.

• CWE-918Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.