Advisory
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vulnerabilities reported by external researchers and their customers every second Tuesday of the month.
SAP Note 3585545
was released on
10.06.2025 and deals with
"[CVE-2025-42988] Server-Side Request Forgery in SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform" within BI/BO platform.
We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve
server-side request forgery (ssrf)
with a
low potential for exploitation
in component BI-BIP-INV.
According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround does not exist. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.
Risk specification
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform contains a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted HTTP requests to internal endpoints. This may result in a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), potentially exposing sensitive information about the internal network.Solution
The application now incorporates enhanced conditional checks to block Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attempts and prevent the enumeration of internal endpoints, thereby strengthening protection against unauthorized internal network access.
Affected System
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence suite is an analytics platform allowing SAP customers to make better decisions based on their business data. SAP BI is a module meant for producing business insights and expands its power in combination with HANA DB and also exists as BW/4 HANA. Due to processing sensitive business data, the Data security is of utmost importance.
The advisory is valid for
- 9.1 [CVE-2024-29415] Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in applications built with SAP Build Apps
- 8.1 [CVE-2021-33705] Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal
- 7.2 [CVE-2024-54197] Server-Side Request Forgery in SAP NetWeaver Administrator (System Overview)
- 5.8 [CVE-2020-6282] Server-Side Request Forgery in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA (IIOP service)
- 5.0 [CVE-2024-41737] Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in SAP CRM ABAP (Insights Management)