CVE-2018-1721

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.3
EPSS: EPSS 1.84 % · percentile 79 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-11-09
Updated: 2024-09-16
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 8.3	CVSS:3.0/S:U/AV:N/AC:L/C:H/A:L/I:H/UI:N/PR:L/RC:C/E:U/RL:O	ibm
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 8.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-91

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-12300
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-1721

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · Cognos Analytics	affected 11.0 ; affected 11.1

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD