CVE-2024-28165VulnerabilityPublished 14 May 2024Updated 16 Dec 2025

CVE-2024-28165: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Affects SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence PlatformSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 8.1 High.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

8.1High

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 46% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 14 May 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
SAP_SE SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform	Affected =430 =440	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Monitor SAP’s official security advisories and apply patches or updates as soon as they become available for SAP BusinessObjects versions 4.3 and 4.4. 2. Implement strict input validation and output encoding on all user-controllable parameters, especially the Opendocument URL parameter, to prevent injection of malicious scripts. 3. Employ Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) with rules designed to detect and block XSS attack patterns targeting SAP BI URLs. 4. Conduct user awareness training focused on recognizing phishing attempts and suspicious URLs to reduce the likelihood of user interaction with malicious links. 5. Restrict access to SAP BusinessObjects interfaces to trusted networks and enforce multi-factor authentication to limit exposure. 6. Regularly audit and monitor logs for unusual access patterns or suspicious URL parameters indicative of attempted exploitation. 7. Consider implementing Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to restrict the execution of unauthorized scripts within the SAP BI web application context. 8. Engage in proactive vulnerability scanning and penetration testing focused on web application security to identify and remediate similar issues.

Description

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform is vulnerable to stored XSS allowing an attacker to manipulate a parameter in the Opendocument URL which could lead to high impact on Confidentiality and Integrity of the application

Impact

For European organizations, the impact of CVE-2024-28165 can be substantial. SAP BusinessObjects is widely used across industries such as finance, manufacturing, utilities, and government sectors in Europe, where sensitive business intelligence data is processed and visualized. Exploitation could lead to unauthorized disclosure of confidential business data, manipulation of reports or dashboards, and potential lateral movement within the network if session tokens or credentials are stolen. This undermines trust in business intelligence outputs and can disrupt decision-making processes. The high confidentiality and integrity impact means that sensitive financial data, strategic plans, or personal data could be exposed or altered. Given the reliance on SAP BI platforms for regulatory reporting and compliance in Europe (e.g., GDPR), such breaches could also lead to legal and financial penalties. The requirement for user interaction means phishing or social engineering campaigns could be used to trigger exploitation, increasing the risk in environments with less mature security awareness.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 23 Dec 2025, 17:19 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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