Security Bulletin
Summary
There are vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty and Open-Source Software (OSS) components used by IBM Cognos Analytics. Additionally, IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities. For more information about the vulnerability impact, refer to the table in the "Related Information" section. This Security Bulletin relates only to third-party components that are used by IBM Cognos Analytics directly and not to any nested dependencies within the product.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-0823
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Analytics could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. 6
CWE: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS Source: IBM
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-40094
DESCRIPTION: GraphQL Java (aka graphql-java) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly consider ExecutableNormalizedFields (ENFs) as part of preventing denial of service. By using introspection queries, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2023-28523
DESCRIPTION: IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10 and 14.10 onsmsync is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. IBM X-Force ID: 250753.
CWE: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-28526
DESCRIPTION: IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10 and 14.10 archecker is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking which could allow a local user to cause a segmentation fault. IBM X-Force ID: 251204.
CWE: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-28527
DESCRIPTION: IBM Informix Dynamic Server 12.10 and 14.10 cdr is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking which could allow a local user to cause a segmentation fault. IBM X-Force ID: 251206.
CWE: CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-45217
DESCRIPTION: Apache Solr could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure default initialization of resource flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to load custom code into classloaders.
CWE: CWE-1188: Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-45216
DESCRIPTION: Apache Solr could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper authentication validation when using PKIAuthenticationPlugin. By sending a specially crafted request using a fake URL Path ending, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restriction.
CWE: CWE-287: Improper Authentication
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 9.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-47561
DESCRIPTION: Apache Avro could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in schema parsing in the Java SDK. By sending a specially crafted request using the "java-class" attribute, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-52798
DESCRIPTION: path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.
CWE: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 7.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
CVEID: CVE-2024-7254
DESCRIPTION: Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-56340
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to local file inclusion vulnerablity, allowing an attacker to access sensitive files by inserting path traversal payloads inside the deficon parameter.
CWE: CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
CVSS Source: IBM
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-39331
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a code injection flaw in org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-30205
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an issue with contents of remote files to be trusted in Org mode. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CWE: CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-30203
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an issue with treating inline MIME contents as trusted. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-30204
DESCRIPTION: GNU Emacs could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an issue with LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CWE: CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2018-25032
DESCRIPTION: Zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption in the deflate operation. By using many distant matches, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CWE: CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2022-37434
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by inflate in inflate.c. By using a large gzip header extra field, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CWE: CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2024-38999
DESCRIPTION: jrburke requirejs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the function s.contexts._.configure. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
CWE: CWE-1321: Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-47554
DESCRIPTION: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO.
The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously crafted input.
This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
IBM X-Force ID: 221377
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the use of uninitialized value in inflate() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CWE: CWE-457: Use of Uninitialized Variable
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Cognos Analytics | 12.0.0-12.0.4 |
| IBM Cognos Analytics | 11.2.0-11.2.4 FP5 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.
| Product(s) | Version(s) | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Cognos Analytics |
12.0.0-12.0.4 | |
| IBM Cognos Analytics |
11.2.0-11.2.4 FP5 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
CVE-2024-56340: This vulnerability was reported to IBM by Mario Tesoro.
Change History
27 Feb 2025: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
27 February 2025
UID
ibm17183676