CVE-2026-0485
Published: 10 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-0485 is a high-severity Amplification (CWE-405) vulnerability in Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence Platform. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 19.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Reduces impact of amplification attacks that overwhelm the primary site by allowing operations to shift to an equivalent alternate site.
Alternate services reduce the impact of amplification attacks that exhaust primary telecommunications resources.
Amplification attacks that exhaust the primary path are mitigated by the existence of an independent alternate path for command traffic.
Employs controls that mitigate amplification attacks causing asymmetric resource use.
Limits amplification effects by controlling how resources are allocated under high-volume or recursive load.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Remote unauthenticated crash of public-facing CMS directly enables T1190 (exploit public-facing app) for initial access and T1499.004 (application/system exploitation) for repeated DoS via crash/restart loops.
NVD Description
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform allows an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted requests that could cause the Content Management Server (CMS) to crash and automatically restart. By repeatedly submitting these requests, the attacker could induce a persistent service disruption, rendering…
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the CMS completely unavailable. Successful exploitation results in a high impact on availability, while confidentiality and integrity remain unaffected.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-0485 is a vulnerability in the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform that affects the Content Management Server (CMS). It enables an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted requests, causing the CMS to crash and automatically restart. Repeated exploitation leads to persistent service disruption, making the CMS completely unavailable and resulting in high impact on availability, with no effects on confidentiality or integrity. The issue is associated with CWE-405 and has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
An unauthenticated attacker with network access can exploit this vulnerability remotely, requiring low complexity and no user interaction or privileges. Successful attacks allow the attacker to crash the CMS repeatedly, inducing a denial-of-service condition that renders the service unavailable.
SAP provides mitigation guidance in its security advisories, including a dedicated security note at https://me.sap.com/notes/3678282 and details on the SAP Security Patch Day at https://url.sap/sapsecuritypatchday.
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