What is CVE-2020-6300?

CVE-2020-6300 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2020-08-12.

How severe is CVE-2020-6300?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform

CVE-2020-6300

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Central Management Console), versions- 4.2, 4.3, allows an attacker with administrator rights can use the web application to send malicious code to a different end user (victim), as it does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs for RecycleBin, resulting in Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Sap Businessobjects_business_intelligence_platform — versions 4.2, 4.3
Sap Se Business Objects Intelligence Platform (Central Management Console) — versions < 4.2, < 4.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cna@sap.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cna@sap.com (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-6300?: CVE-2020-6300 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2020-08-12.
How severe is CVE-2020-6300?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.