🛡️ CVE-2023-39440 — businessobjects-business-intelligence

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. 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:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• 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-2023-39440 is classified as CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. Sensitive values are written to storage unencrypted and readable by anyone with access to it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-39440 is recorded against 1 package.

• businessobjects-business-intelligence

Timeline and source

Published on 8 August 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

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Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2025-23192 (8.2 High, published 10 Jun 2025)
• CVE-2024-37179 (7.7 High, published 8 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2023-37489 (5.3 Medium, published 12 Sep 2023)
• CVE-2023-40622 (9.9 Critical, published 12 Sep 2023)
• CVE-2023-37490 (7.6 High, published 8 Aug 2023)
• CVE-2023-36917 (5.9 Medium, published 11 Jul 2023)
• CVE-2023-28762 (9.1 Critical, published 9 May 2023)
• CVE-2023-31406 (6.1 Medium, published 9 May 2023)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information) in other software:

• CVE-2026-21080 (6.5 Medium, published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-20312 (8.8 High, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-55997 (8.8 High, published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-15721 (9.8 Critical, published 4 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-34490 (5.5 Medium, published 31 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-59327 (4.4 Medium, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-55985 (4.3 Medium, published 24 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-16802 (6.5 Medium, published 24 Jul 2026)

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