THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-4178
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2019-4178

Cognos Analytics vulnerability

CVSS
6.4
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
IBM Cognos Analytics 11 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to write or view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 158919.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Cognos Analytics
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-04-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-4178

  • Confirm whether Ibm Cognos Analytics is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-4178.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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