CVE-2020-4388

HIGH

IBM Cognos Analytics < 11.0.13 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack by failing to catch exceptions in a servlet also exposing debug information could also be used in future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 179270.

References (2)

[VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/179270

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6346922

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2

EPSS 0.0020

EPSS Percentile 42.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-755

Status published

Affected Products (4)

ibm/cognos_analytics < 11.0.13

ibm/cognos_analytics

Timeline

Published Oct 12, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026