What is CVE-2016-6818?

CVE-2016-6818 is a critical-severity vulnerability in SAP Business Intelligence Platform, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-04-13.

How severe is CVE-2016-6818?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in SAP Business Intelligence Platform

CVE-2016-6818

SQL injection vulnerability in SAP Business Intelligence platform before January 2017 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, modify data, cause a denial of service (data deletion), or launch administrative operations or possibly OS commands via a crafted SQL query. The vendor response is SAP Security Note 2361633.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.024 (82.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Sap Business_intelligence_platform
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6818?: CVE-2016-6818 is a critical-severity vulnerability in SAP Business Intelligence Platform, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-04-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-6818?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.