CVE-2020-4685

HIGH

IBM Cognos Controller <10.4.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A low level user of IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.4.1, and 10.4.2 who has Administration rights to the server where the application is installed, can escalate their privilege from Low level to Super Admin and gain access to Create/Update/Delete any level of user in Cognos Controller. IBM X-Force ID: 186625.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6339995
VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186625

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0143
EPSS Percentile 70.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (5)
ibm/cognos_controller 10.3.0
ibm/cognos_controller 10.3.1
ibm/cognos_controller 10.4.0
ibm/cognos_controller 10.4.1
ibm/cognos_controller 10.4.2
Published Nov 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026