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🛡️ CVE-2023-36917 — businessobjects-business-intelligence

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-307 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
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Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform - version 420, 430, allows an unauthorized attacker who had hijacked a user session, to be able to bypass the victim’s old password via brute force, due to unrestricted rate limit for password change functionality. Although the attack has no impact on integrity loss or system availability, this could lead to an attacker to completely takeover a victim’s account.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-36917 is classified as CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. Repeated login attempts are not limited, leaving credentials open to brute forcing.

Affected software

CVE-2023-36917 is recorded against 1 package.

  • businessobjects-business-intelligence

Timeline and source

Published on 11 July 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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businessobjects-business-intelligence has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-307
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

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