dbcve.org
Businessobjects Business Intelligence PlatformApplication · Sap

CVE-2020-6189

MEDIUM · 5.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2020-02-12
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
See remediation →
62/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

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 · unedited
Certain settings page(s) in SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (CMC), version 4.2, generates error messages that can give enterprise private-network related information which would otherwise be restricted leading to Information Disclosure.

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 · moderate confidence

The vulnerability exists in the Central Management Console (CMC) of SAP Business Objects BI Platform version 4.2. Certain settings pages generate verbose error messages that inadvertently expose enterprise private-network information (such as internal IP addresses, hostnames, or network paths) that should be restricted from external view. This information disclosure occurs through improper error handling in the affected pages.

MitigationImplement proper error message sanitization and custom error pages to prevent disclosure of internal network configuration details. Apply the relevant SAP security patch when available, and restrict access to the CMC settings pages to authorized administrators only.

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
Businessobjects Business Intelligence PlatformApplication
Affected:= 4.2

CVSS 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
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify the installed SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform version
    Access the Central Management Console (CMC) login page and check the version information typically displayed on the login screen, or query the SAP BusinessObjects system information via the CMC 'About' page under the 'Help' menu
    Affected if The installed version is SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 (any 4.2.x release)
  2. Verify Central Management Console (CMC) accessibility
    Navigate to the CMC web interface (typically at /BOE/CMC or /BOE/BI logon) using a web browser and confirm the login page loads successfully
    Affected if The CMC is accessible and operational in the environment
  3. Identify settings pages in CMC that handle configuration
    In the CMC, navigate to the 'Applications' section and examine settings pages related to server configuration, repository paths, or network-related settings such as Server Intelligence Agent (SIA) configuration, Input FRS paths, or Adaptive Processing Server settings
    Affected if The CMC contains settings pages that handle server configuration, repository paths, or network-related settings
  4. Trigger error conditions on settings pages to observe verbose output
    Attempt to submit invalid configurations or access restricted settings in the identified pages, or deliberately misconfigure a path or setting to force an error condition, then observe the resulting error messages returned by the server
    Affected if Error messages displayed by the affected settings pages contain internal IP addresses, hostnames, network paths, or other private-network configuration details that should not be visible to users

The environment is affected if SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform version 4.2 is installed and the CMC settings pages display verbose error messages containing internal network configuration details such as internal IP addresses, hostnames, or network paths.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

Check your environment

Paste your version and any relevant configuration and it will be compared against the affected criteria above. Do not include secrets or credentials.

AI-assisted, checked against the advisory. Informational, not a guarantee.

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 data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement proper error message sanitization and custom error pages to prevent disclosure of internal network configuration details. Apply the relevant SAP security patch when available, and restrict access to the CMC settings pages to authorized administrators only.

Fix this in Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation8.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
18.0 hours of engineering $3,200
Get help mitigating

An estimate, not a bill — we confirm scope with you before any work starts. Need it this week? Rush from $5,120.

Scan for this in your stack

Free · runs locally
dbcve dependency scanner

Check whether your project pulls in CVE-2020-6189 — or any other known-vulnerable package — straight from your lock files. Free and open source; it runs locally and uploads nothing.

Get it on GitHub Scan in the browser

References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

Primary sources

Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2020-6189 in production — separate from our analysis above.

No notes yet

Be the first to add a field note for this CVE — a mitigation you’ve verified, a version caveat, or a link to a working fix. Sign in above to contribute.

What this is

A place for practitioners to share what actually worked: a mitigation you’ve tested, a configuration change, a version- or environment-specific caveat, or a link to a verified patch. The most useful notes rise to the top as peers upvote them, so the signal stays high.

What belongs here
  • Verified mitigations, workarounds, and config changes
  • Version or environment caveats, and links to real fixes
  • No weaponised exploit code, or anything meant to cause harm
  • No spam, self-promotion, credentials, or personal data