Due to improper error handling in SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform, technical details of the application are revealed in exceptions thrown to the user and in stack traces. Only an attacker with administrator level privileges has access to this disclosed information, and they could use it to craft further exploits. There is no impact on the integrity and availability of the application.
Weakness
The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data.
Potential Mitigations
- Ensure that error messages only contain minimal details that are useful to the intended audience and no one else. The messages need to strike the balance between being too cryptic (which can confuse users) or being too detailed (which may reveal more than intended). The messages should not reveal the methods that were used to determine the error. Attackers can use detailed information to refine or optimize their original attack, thereby increasing their chances of success.
- If errors must be captured in some detail, record them in log messages, but consider what could occur if the log messages can be viewed by attackers. Highly sensitive information such as passwords should never be saved to log files.
- Avoid inconsistent messaging that might accidentally tip off an attacker about internal state, such as whether a user account exists or not.
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