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🛡️ CVE-2024-25047 — cognos-analytics

🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-117 NVD
8.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 and 12.0.0 through 12.0.2 is vulnerable to injection attacks in application logging by not sanitizing user provided data. This could lead to further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 282956.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-25047 is classified as CWE-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs. The product constructs a log message from external input, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements when the message is written to a log file.

Affected software

CVE-2024-25047 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • cognos-analytics
  • oncommand-insight

Timeline and source

Published on 2 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
security.netapp.com
www.ibm.com
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.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-117: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-117
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cognos-analytics
oncommand-insight

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