CVE-2018-1721

HIGH 8.8CVE-2018-1721 · Published 09/11/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1721 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting cognos analytics (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 79.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cognos analytics ibm	`= 11.0.0= 11.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or cause the web server to make HTTP requests to arbitrary domains. IBM X-Force ID: 147369.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147369 · VDB Entry
ibm.com/support/pages/node/1074144 · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

cognos analytics

ibm

= 11.0.0= 11.1.0

No fix yet

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