CVE-2025-25032 IBM Cognos Analytics denial of service
An authenticated user can cause a denial of service in IBM Cognos Analytics by sending a specially crafted request that exhausts memory resources.
- 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-2025-25032?
CVE-2025-25032 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 11 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.2.2, 11.2.3, 11.2.4, 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, and 12.0.4 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted request that would exhaust memory resources.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25032?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics.
How do I fix CVE-2025-25032?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-25032 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-2025-25032 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25032 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-v9x3-f4g7-pgm4.