CVE-2012-4837 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XPath injection attacks, and read arbitrary XML files, via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2013-03-02

Score: 4.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:8.4.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_business_intelligence:10.2:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-4762	IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XPath injection attacks, and read arbitrary XML files, via unspecified vectors.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00179.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21626697
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24034373
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78919

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published: 2013-03-02T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:50:17.375Z

Reserved: 2012-09-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-4837

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-03-05T05:02:08.020

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-4837

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-200

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