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🛡️ CVE-2024-56340 — cognos-analytics

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-23 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP5 is vulnerable to local file inclusion vulnerability, allowing an attacker to access sensitive files by inserting path traversal payloads inside the deficon parameter.

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 none, availability none.

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:N/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: 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: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-56340 is classified as CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal. Relative path sequences in user input are not neutralised, so requests can climb out of the intended directory.

Affected software

CVE-2024-56340 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cognos-analytics

Timeline and source

Published on 28 February 2025 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

www.ibm.com
github.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-23: Relative Path Traversal) 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:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-23
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cognos-analytics — —

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