# CVE-2013-3030: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause a temporary gateway outage in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence by sending crafted HTTP requests.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Nov 2013
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cqj9-r8xg-mxwg

## What is CVE-2013-3030?

CVE-2013-3030 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The servlet gateway in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1 before IF3, 10.1.0 before IF4, 10.1.1 before IF4, 10.2.0 before IF4, 10.2.1 before IF2, and 10.2.1.1 before IF1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary gateway outage) via crafted HTTP requests.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3030?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-3030?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3030 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-3030 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3030 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2012-4858](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4858/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2016-8960](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-8960/): Privilege escalation in Cognos Business Intelligence (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2016-3036](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3036/): Memory corruption in Cognos TM1 (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-1764](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1764/): Information disclosure in Cognos Business Intelligence (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2016-0254](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0254/): XML external entity in Cognos Business Intelligence (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-3030 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-3030 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3030 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3030/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3030/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3030
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3030
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-3030

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