🛡️ CVE-2024-28780 — cognos-controller

🟡 CVSS 5.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-327 NVD
5.9
CVSS Score
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Description

IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP3 and IBM Controller 11.1.0 Rich Client 

uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no 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 none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-28780 is classified as CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm. An algorithm with known weaknesses is used, so the protection it appears to give does not hold.

Affected software

CVE-2024-28780 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

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-327
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-19
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cognos-controller 11.0.0 11.0.1.4
controller — —

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