CVE-2020-4388 Denial of service in Cognos Analytics
Attackers can cause a denial of service and potentially expose debug information via unhandled exceptions in IBM Cognos Analytics.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-4388?
CVE-2020-4388 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 12 Oct 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-755
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4388?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics.
How do I fix CVE-2020-4388?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4388 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-4388 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4388 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-77x5-h8g5-w23m.