What is CVE-2023-36917?

CVE-2023-36917 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-07-11.

How severe is CVE-2023-36917?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence

CVE-2023-36917

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.

EPSS: 0.006 (45.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Sap Businessobjects_business_intelligence — versions 420, 430
Sap_se Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform — versions 4.20, 430

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-307 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-36917?: CVE-2023-36917 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-07-11.
How severe is CVE-2023-36917?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.