CVE-2012-4840 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4840?

CVE-2012-4840 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Mar 2013. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote attackers to conduct XPath injection attacks, and call XPath extension functions, via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4840?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4840?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4840 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2012-4840 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4840 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2012-4858 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2016-8960 Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence High 8.8
• CVE-2016-3036 Memory corruption in Cognos TM1 High 7.5
• CVE-2017-1764 Information disclosure in Cognos Business Intelligence High 7.0
• CVE-2016-0254 XML external entity in Cognos Business Intelligence Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w6p2-83wm-qwh2.