CVE-2020-4301 Cross-site request forgery in Cognos Analytics
An attacker can trick users into performing unauthorized actions in IBM Cognos Analytics via cross-site request forgery.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-4301?
CVE-2020-4301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 1 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, 11.2.0, and 11.2.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 176609.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4301?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics, Netapp Oncommand Insight.
How do I fix CVE-2020-4301?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4301 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-4301 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4301 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2020-4561 Missing authorization in Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2024-51466 IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection
- CVE-2021-29679 Code injection in Cognos Analytics
- CVE-2024-25047 IBM Cognos Analytics log injection
- CVE-2018-1721 IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-ph3j-4243-hr33.