{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4388 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4388 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-4388 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4388 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Ibm Cognos Analytics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4388/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4388/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-4388","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4388/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-4388","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-77x5-h8g5-w23m"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IBM Cognos Analytics","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause a denial of service and potentially expose debug information via unhandled exceptions in IBM Cognos Analytics.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"ibm","cpe":[{"product":"cognos_analytics","vendor":"ibm"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/C:L/A:L/S:U/UI:N/I:N/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:U","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-755","name":"Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4388","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ibm:cognos_analytics","products":["ibm:cognos_analytics"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Auth bypass in Security Access Manager Appliance","id":"CVE-2020-4395"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Race condition in DB2 for Linux- UNIX and Windows","id":"CVE-2020-4387"},"products":["Cognos Analytics"],"published":"2020-10-12","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Missing authorization in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4561","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-31"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection","id":"CVE-2024-51466","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-12-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code injection in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2021-29679","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-15"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics log injection","id":"CVE-2024-25047","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-02"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data.","id":"CVE-2018-1721","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-09"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"XML external entity in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4300","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-31"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"XML external entity in Cognos Analytics","id":"CVE-2020-4377","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-08-03"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["IBM"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause a denial of service and potentially expose debug information via unhandled exceptions in IBM Cognos Analytics.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4388/"}