CVE-2020-4300

Cognos Analytics vulnerability

CVSS

8.2

EPSS

4.0%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 176607.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Cognos Analytics

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference

Published

2021-06-01

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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