CVE-2023-36917: SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence: version 420 only; version 430 only

Published 2023-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.