# CVE-2024-41752: IBM Cognos Analytics HTML injection

> Remote attackers can inject malicious HTML into IBM Cognos Analytics, leading to script execution in victims' browsers within the site's security context.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 18 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wr5h-38pc-5qx7

## What is CVE-2024-41752?

CVE-2024-41752 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 18 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 and 12.0.0 through 12.0.3 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-80 (Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-41752?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Cognos Analytics.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-41752?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-41752 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-41752 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41752 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Cognos Analytics

- [CVE-2020-4561](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4561/): Missing authorization in Cognos Analytics (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-51466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51466/): IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2021-29679](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29679/): Code injection in Cognos Analytics (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-25047](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25047/): IBM Cognos Analytics log injection (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2018-1721](https://insights.sbomify.com/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. (high 8.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-41752 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-41752 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 18 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-41752 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ibm Cognos Analytics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41752/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41752/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41752
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41752
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-41752

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-41752/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.