CVE-2019-0378
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedSAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), before version 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs and allows an attacker to store malicious scripts in the file name of the background image resulting in Stored Cross-Site Scripting.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceSAP BusinessObjects BI Platform's Web Intelligence HTML interface fails to properly encode user-controlled inputs, allowing attackers to embed malicious JavaScript in the file name of background images. This stored XSS persists and executes when other users view the affected content.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 4.0= 4.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform versionAccess the Central Management Console (CMC) or System Information page in SAP BusinessObjects and note the exact version number (for example, 4.0 SP00 or 4.1 SP04)Affected if The installed version is 4.0 or 4.1 (any Service Pack)
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Confirm Web Intelligence module is in useCheck if Web Intelligence documents exist in the system by accessing the CMC and viewing the folder structure or querying the CMS database for WebI documentsAffected if Web Intelligence documents are present in the system
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Identify background images in Web Intelligence documentsOpen Web Intelligence documents via the Web Intelligence HTML interface (WebI Rich Client) and inspect any documents that contain background images by checking document properties or viewing in design modeAffected if Any Web Intelligence documents contain background images that can be viewed by other users
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Check for injected script in image file namesReview the file names of background images in Web Intelligence documents - look for suspicious patterns such as .js references, script tags, or encoded characters within the image file name fieldAffected if A background image file name contains malicious JavaScript code and other users can view the affected document
A user is affected if SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform version 4.0 or 4.1 is running, Web Intelligence documents with background images exist, and those images have malicious script payloads embedded in their file names that execute when viewed by other users.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform to version 4.2 or later which implements proper input encoding for background image file names.
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- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing8.0 h
- Review / QA4.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2019-0378 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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