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CVE-2021-42061

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence) - version 420, does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This allows a low privileged attacker to retrieve some data from the victim but will never be able to modify the document and publish these modifications to the server. It impacts the "Quick Prompt" workflow.

Affected products

• SAP_SE SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform: 420

References

• https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3103677
• https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PSR/SAP+Security+Patch+Day+-+December+2021
• https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3103677
• https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PSR/SAP+Security+Patch+Day+-+December+2021

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