CVE-2020-4388 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Severity

82%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

70%

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack by failing to catch exceptions in a servlet also exposing debug information could also be used in future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 179270.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2020-10-12 14:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-10-14 13:25:00

Affected Software

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.13

11.0.13

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 Fix Pack 1

11.0.13

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 Fix Pack 2

11.0.13

References

ibm-cognos-cve20204388-dos (179270)

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346922

ibm-cognos-cve20204388-dos (179270)

VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346922

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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