Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Central management console)

Description

Due to improper input sanitization of user-controlled input in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform CMC application - versions 420, and 430, an attacker with basic user-level privileges can modify/upload crystal reports containing a malicious payload. Once these reports are viewable, anyone who opens those reports would be susceptible to stored XSS attacks. As a result of the attack, information maintained in the victim's web browser can be read, modified, and sent to the attacker.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.

Weakness

• CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• SAP · BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Central management console)

  • affected 420
  • affected 430

References (2)

• https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3266006 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/fa865ea4-167e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-0018](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-0018.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-0018)

Record last updated 9 Apr 2025, 13:52 UTC.