CVE-2025-3633 IBM Cognos Analytics is affected by multiple security vulnerabilities
Remote attackers can inject JavaScript into IBM Cognos Analytics to steal credentials and alter functionality, requiring users to apply vendor patches.
- 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-2025-3633?
CVE-2025-3633 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Analytics, published on 27 May 2026. 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, 11.2.4, 12.0, and 12.1.0 and IBM Cognos Transformer 11.2.4, 12.0, and 12.1.0 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript code into the web user interface, which may alter the intended functionality and could lead to the disclosure of credentials within a trusted session.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3633?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Ibm Cognos Analytics, Ibm Cognos Transformer.
How do I fix CVE-2025-3633?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3633 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-3633 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3633 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-p9wj-7gjh-3h42.