Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-36917 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in SAP Businessobjects Business Intelligence 420/430
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |