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CVE-2020-6231
SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), version 4.2, does not sufficiently encode…
Medium5.4EPSS 0.65%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- sap
Description
SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence HTML interface), version 4.2, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By sap
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| sapCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
- Cross Site Scripting
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (2)
- https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=544214202 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2879132 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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