CVE-2024-56340

IBM Cognos Analytics path traversal

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.84 % · percentile 58 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-02-28
Updated: 2025-10-17
Assigner: ibm
NVD status: Modified

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP5 is vulnerable to local file inclusion vulnerability, allowing an attacker to access sensitive files by inserting path traversal payloads inside the deficon parameter.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	ibm
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@us.ibm.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-23

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-53951
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-56340

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0170 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 11.2.0 < 11.2.4
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.0.4
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:fixpack1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:fixpack2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:fixpack3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:fixpack4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:11.2.4:fixpack5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:12.0.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics:12.0.4:interim_fix_1:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
IBM · Cognos Analytics	affected 11.2.0 ≤ 11.2.4 FP5

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
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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