CVE-2023-36917
MediumCVSS 5.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk38th percentile - higher than 38% of all known CVEs
Summary
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform versions 420 and 430 allow an unauthorized attacker who hijacked a user session to bypass the victim's old password via brute force due to unrestricted rate limit for password change functionality.
Risk Assessment
Although the attack has no impact on integrity loss or system availability, it could lead to an attacker completely taking over a victim's account.
Recommendation
It is recommended to implement rate limiting for password change functionality and to monitor user sessions for unauthorized activities.
Other vulnerabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
See all- CVE-2026-66772Medium
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Admin Tools) does not perform sufficient authorization checks on certain administrative functionality. An attacker authenticated as a non-administrative user could bypass this restriction to gain limited information about affected functionality.
- CVE-2026-66763High
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform stores certain sensitive credentials associated with user objects using a hard-coded cryptographic key. An attacker with high privileges and local access to the server could retrieve these objects and decrypt the stored credentials. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive authentication data and modify protected information, resulting in a high impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no impact on availability.
- CVE-2026-58248Medium
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence) allows a low-privileged attacker to upload a specially crafted spreadsheet file containing malicious external references. When the file is processed as a data source, the affected component resolves these references and exposes the contents of sensitive server-side files within the resulting report. This results in a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.
Original NVD description (English source)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform - version 420, 430, allows an unauthorized attacker who had hijacked a user session, to be able to bypass the victim’s old password via brute force, due to unrestricted rate limit for password change functionality. Although the attack has no impact on integrity loss or system availability, this could lead to an attacker to completely takeover a victim’s account.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS