🛡️ CVE-2024-28777 — cognos-controller

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 high, integrity high, 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:H/I:H/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: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28777 is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28777 is recorded against 2 packages.

• cognos-controller (from 11.0.0 up to 11.0.1.4)
• controller

Timeline and source

Published on 19 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.ibm.com

Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2025-36102 (2.7 Low, published 8 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-36015 (6.5 Medium, published 8 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-33111 (4.3 Medium, published 8 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-36326 (3.7 Low, published 26 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-33079 (6.5 Medium, published 27 May 2025)
• CVE-2022-39163 (4.7 Medium, published 26 Mar 2025)
• CVE-2024-45084 (8.0 High, published 19 Feb 2025)
• CVE-2024-28780 (5.9 Medium, published 19 Feb 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data) in other software:

• CVE-2026-59940 (9.8 Critical, published 18 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-47058 (8.0 High, published 17 Aug 2026)

Details

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