CVE-2014-8309: SAP Businessobjects

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and BusinessObjects XI (BOXI) R2 and 3.1 generates error messages for a failed logon attempt with different time delays depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames via SecEnterprise authentication requests to the Session web service.

Affected products

• SAP Businessobjects: version 4.0 only
• SAP Businessobjects XI: version 3.1 only; version r2 only

Published 2014-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.