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🛡️ CVE-2022-34357 — cognos-analytics

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile Server 11.1.7, 11.2.4, and 12.0.0 is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to due to weak or absence of rate limiting. By making unlimited http requests, it is possible for a single user to exhaust server resources over a period of time making service unavailable for other legitimate users. IBM X-Force ID: 230510.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-34357 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2022-34357 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • cognos-analytics
  • oncommand-insight

Timeline and source

Published on 26 February 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
security.netapp.com
security.netapp.com
www.ibm.com
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
security.netapp.com
security.netapp.com
www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

cognos-analytics has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-02-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cognos-analytics
oncommand-insight

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