CVE-2024-40695 IBM Cognos Analytics file upload
Attackers can upload malicious executable files due to lack of content validation, potentially leading to code execution on the system.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-40695?
CVE-2024-40695 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 20 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP4 and
12.0.0 through 12.0.4
could be vulnerable to malicious file upload by not validating the content of the file uploaded to the web interface. Attackers can make use of this weakness and upload malicious executable files into the system, and it can be sent to victim for performing further attacks.
Weakness: CWE-434
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-40695?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics.
How do I fix CVE-2024-40695?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-40695 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-40695 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-40695 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-ch29-m9jp-wg9f.