CVE-2020-6257
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 Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (CMC and BI Launchpad) 4.2 does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.
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 confidenceSAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform version 4.2 contains a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the CMC and BI Launchpad components. The application fails to properly encode user-controlled inputs, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts that could be executed in the context of other users' sessions.
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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= 4.2CVSS 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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Identify the installed SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform versionAccess the Central Management Console (CMC) and navigate to the 'About' section, or check the version through the SAP BusinessObjects installation directory by examining the version.info or related version files in the installation path.Affected if The installed version is exactly 4.2 (the only affected version per this CVE)
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Confirm CMC component is accessibleAttempt to access the Central Management Console via its web interface (typically at /BOE/CMC or /cmc) using a web browser.Affected if CMC is accessible and the version is 4.2, the XSS vulnerability in CMC could be exploited
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Confirm BI Launchpad component is accessibleAttempt to access BI Launchpad (formerly InfoView) via its web interface (typically at /BOE/BI Launchpad or /BOE/) using a web browser.Affected if BI Launchpad is accessible and the version is 4.2, the XSS vulnerability in BI Launchpad could be exploited
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Review input fields in CMC and BI LaunchpadLog into both CMC and BI Launchpad interfaces and examine user-controllable input fields such as document names, folder names, user preferences, or custom property fields.Affected if User-controllable inputs exist in either CMC or BI Launchpad on version 4.2, and these inputs are not properly encoded before display
The environment is affected if SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform version 4.2 is installed AND either the CMC or BI Launchpad web interfaces are accessible with user-controllable input fields.
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 dataApply SAP security patches for CVE-2020-6257 and implement proper output encoding for all user-controlled inputs in the CMC and BI Launchpad interfaces.
- Consultation8.0 h
- Implementation16.0 h
- Testing8.0 h
- Review / QA4.0 h
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2020-6257 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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- 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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