CVE-2024-41731 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2024-41731
Vulnerability Scoring

3.1
/10
Moderate Risk

Exploiting CVE-2024-41731 requires specific conditions, leading to a moderate security impact.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Network
    Vulnerability is exploitable over a network without physical access.
  • Privileges Required: Low
    Some privileges are necessary to exploit the vulnerability.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2024-41731 Details

Status: Modified

Last updated: 🕖 10 Dec 2024, 07:15 UTC
Originally published on: 🕓 13 Aug 2024, 04:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 119 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

cna@sap.com

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2024-41731 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-41731: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform allows an authenticated attacker to upload malicious code over the network, that could be executed by the application. On successful exploitation, the attacker can cause a low impact on the Integrity of the application.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2024-41731

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2024-41731 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2024-41731

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-41731, requires a high level of attack complexity and low privileges, making it difficult but not impossible to exploit. Organizations should ensure robust security configurations to mitigate risks.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2024-41731, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2024-41731, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: None
    CVE-2024-41731 has no significant impact on data confidentiality.
  • Integrity: Low
    Exploiting CVE-2024-41731 may cause minor changes to data without severely impacting its accuracy.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2024-41731 does not impact system availability.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

The EPSS score estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the near future.

EPSS Score: 0.053% (probability of exploit)

EPSS Percentile: 24.62% (lower percentile = lower relative risk)
This vulnerability is less risky than approximately 75.38% of others.

CVE-2024-41731 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-434

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs CAPEC-1 In applications, particularly web applications, access to functionality is mitigated by an authorization framework. This framework maps Access Control Lists (ACLs) to elements of the application's functionality; particularly URL's for web apps. In the case that the administrator failed to specify an ACL for a particular element, an attacker may be able to access it with impunity. An attacker with the ability to access functionality not properly constrained by ACLs can obtain sensitive information and possibly compromise the entire application. Such an attacker can access resources that must be available only to users at a higher privilege level, can access management sections of the application, or can run queries for data that they otherwise not supposed to.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:430:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:430:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:440:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:440:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:enterprise_420:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sap:business_objects_business_intelligence_platform:enterprise_420:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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