CVE-2018-2479 — SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BIWorkspace), versions 4

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BIWorkspace), versions 4.1 and 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

01What is this vulnerability?

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BIWorkspace), versions 4.1 and 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
SAP	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (BIWorkspace)	= 4.1, = 4.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-13T20:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T04:21:34.148Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105902
• launchpad.support.sap.com — https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2676094
• wiki.scn.sap.com — https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=503809832