Onapsis Security Advisory - SAP Business Objects suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability. By exploiting this vulnerability an unauthenticated attacker could read or write any business-relevant information from the Business Intelligence Platform and also render the system unavailable to other users.
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Onapsis Security Advisory 2015-013: SAP Business Objects Memory Corruption
1. Impact on Business
=====================
By exploiting this vulnerability an unauthenticated attacker could read or
write
any business-relevant information from the Business Intelligence Platform
and also
render the system unavailable to other users.
Risk Level: High
2. Advisory Information
=======================
* Public Release Date: 09/22/2015
* Last Revised: 09/22/2015
* Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2015-013
* Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00105
* CVE: N/A
* Researcher: Will Vandevanter
* Vendor Provided CVSS v2: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
* Onapsis CVSS v2: 9 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
* Onapsis CVSS v3: 8.6 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)
3. Vulnerability Information
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* Vendor: SAP AG
* Affected Components:
* BussinessObjects Edge 4.0
* BussinessObjects BI Platform 4.1
* BOXI 3.1 R3
* Vulnerability Class: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (CWE-120)
* Remotely Exploitable: Yes
* Locally Exploitable: No
* Authentication Required: No
* Original Advisory:
http://www.onapsis.com/research/security-advisories/SAP-Business-Objects-Memory-Corruption
4. Affected Components Description
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Business Objects is part of the Business Intelligence platform from SAP.
It has components that provide performance management, planning, reporting,
query and analysis and enterprise information management.
Every Business Objects installation provides a web service to interact with
different platform services.
5. Vulnerability Details
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A mishandling of a malformed GIOP packet causes the remote listener to
crash while reading from invalid memory.
6. Solution
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Implement SAP Security Note 2001108.
7. Report Timeline
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12/23/2013: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to SAP AG.
12/24/2013: SAP AG confirms reception of vulnerability report.
01/14/2014: SAP reports fix is In Process.
05/12/2015: SAP releases SAP Security Note 2001108 fixing the vulnerability.
09/22/2015: Onapsis Releases Security Advisory.
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