CVE-2021-29745 Privilege escalation in Cognos Analytics
A lower-level user can access the restricted 'New Job' page in IBM Cognos Analytics, leading to privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-29745?
CVE-2021-29745 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 15 Oct 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and 11.2.0 is vulnerable to priviledge escalation where a lower evel user could have access to the 'New Job' page to which they should not have access to. IBM X-Force ID: 201695.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-29745?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics, Netapp Oncommand Insight.
How do I fix CVE-2021-29745?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-29745 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-29745 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29745 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-2pwf-hqr9-mw42.