📄 Description (English)
Due to insufficient CSRF protection in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform ,an authenticated user could be tricked by an attacker to send unintended requests to the web server. This has low impact on integrity and availability of the application. There is no impact on confidentiality of the data.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
CVE-2026-0502 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform affecting authenticated users. An attacker could trick users into performing unintended actions, impacting system integrity and availability with medium severity (CVSS 5.4). No public exploit is currently available, but organizations should implement compensating controls immediately as no patch is available.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: May 26, 2026 10:19
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability poses significant risk to Saudi organizations using SAP BusinessObjects for business intelligence and reporting. Most affected sectors include: Banking and Financial Services (SAMA-regulated institutions using BI for risk analysis and reporting), Government agencies (NCA, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Finance) relying on BI platforms for decision-making, Energy sector (ARAMCO and subsidiaries using BI for operations), Telecommunications (STC, Mobily using BI for network analytics), and Healthcare institutions. The CSRF vulnerability could allow unauthorized modification of reports, dashboards, and data configurations, potentially leading to incorrect business decisions based on manipulated intelligence.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Banking and Financial Services
Government and Public Administration
Energy and Utilities
Telecommunications
Healthcare
Insurance
Manufacturing
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
6.8
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
Immediate Actions:
1. Identify all SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform instances in your environment and document user access patterns
2. Implement network segmentation to restrict access to BI platforms to authorized networks only
3. Enable and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all BI platform users
4. Review and restrict administrative access to BI platforms
Compensating Controls (until patch available):
5. Implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block CSRF attacks targeting BI endpoints
6. Deploy SameSite cookie attributes (Strict/Lax) if configurable in your BI environment
7. Implement CSRF tokens validation at application level if possible through custom configurations
8. Monitor for suspicious cross-origin requests to BI platform endpoints
9. Conduct user awareness training on phishing and social engineering attacks that could exploit this vulnerability
10. Implement request logging and alerting for state-changing operations (POST, PUT, DELETE) from unexpected origins
Detection Rules:
- Alert on POST/PUT/DELETE requests to /businessobjects/* endpoints from external referrers
- Monitor for multiple failed authentication attempts followed by successful requests
- Track unusual report modifications or dashboard changes outside normal business hours
- Flag requests with missing or invalid Referer headers to BI endpoints
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
الإجراءات الفورية:
1. تحديد جميع مثيلات منصة SAP BusinessObjects BI في بيئتك وتوثيق أنماط وصول المستخدمين
2. تطبيق تقسيم الشبكة لتقييد الوصول إلى منصات BI للشبكات المصرح بها فقط
3. تفعيل وفرض المصادقة متعددة العوامل (MFA) لجميع مستخدمي منصة BI
4. مراجعة وتقييد الوصول الإداري إلى منصات BI
الضوابط التعويضية (حتى توفر التصحيح):
5. تطبيق قواعد جدار حماية تطبيقات الويب (WAF) للكشف عن هجمات CSRF وحجبها
6. نشر سمات ملفات تعريف الارتباط SameSite (Strict/Lax) إن أمكن في بيئة BI
7. تطبيق التحقق من رموز CSRF على مستوى التطبيق إذا أمكن من خلال التكوينات المخصصة
8. مراقبة الطلبات المريبة عبر الأصول إلى نقاط نهاية منصة BI
9. إجراء تدريب الوعي للمستخدمين حول هجمات التصيد والهندسة الاجتماعية
10. تطبيق تسجيل الطلبات والتنبيهات للعمليات التي تغير الحالة من أصول غير متوقعة
قواعد الكشف:
- تنبيه على طلبات POST/PUT/DELETE إلى نقاط نهاية /businessobjects/* من مراجع خارجية
- مراقبة محاولات المصادقة الفاشلة المتعددة متبوعة بطلبات ناجحة
- تتبع تعديلات التقارير غير العادية أو تغييرات لوحات المعلومات خارج ساعات العمل العادية
- وضع علامة على الطلبات ذات رؤوس Referer المفقودة أو غير الصحيحة إلى نقاط نهاية BI
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
5.1.1 - Access Control and Authentication
5.2.1 - Protection Against Unauthorized Access
5.3.2 - Web Application Security
6.1.1 - Incident Detection and Response
🔵 SAMA CSF
ID.AC-1 - Identity and Access Management
PR.AC-1 - Access Control Policy
PR.PT-1 - Security Awareness and Training
DE.CM-1 - Network Monitoring
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
A.5.2.1 - User Registration and Access Rights Management
A.5.3.1 - Management of Privileged Access Rights
A.8.1.1 - User Endpoint Devices
A.8.3.1 - Cryptography
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0.1
6.5.9 - Protection Against CSRF Attacks
7.1 - Limit Access to System Components
8.2.1 - User Authentication
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