Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilities

Summary

There are vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software (OSS) components consumed by IBM Cognos Analytics. IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed the applicable CVEs by upgrading or removing the vulnerable libraries in the latest available versions or previously released versions. Additionally, IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed a vulnerability that could lead to injection attacks (CVE-2024-25047). Please refer to the Related Information section below for vulnerability impact.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-44981
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache ZooKeeper could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when SASL Quorum Peer authentication is enabled. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass authorization and allow arbitrary endpoints to join the cluster and begin propagating counterfeit changes.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268362 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-44487
**DESCRIPTION:**Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in handling multiplexed streams in the HTTP/2 protocol. By sending numerous HTTP/2 requests and RST_STREAM frames over multiple streams, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service due to server resource consumption.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268044 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-5072
**DESCRIPTION:**JSON-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a bug in the parser. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268485 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-34462
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake the SniHandler class. By sending a specially crafted client hello packet, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258713 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2024-25047
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to injection attacks in application logging by not sanitizing user provided data. This could lead to further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/282956 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23540
**DESCRIPTION:**Auth0 jsonwebtoken could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure default algorithm flaw in the jwt.verify() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass signature validation.
CVSS Base score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242969 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23541
**DESCRIPTION:**Auth0 jsonwebtoken could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure implementation of key retrieval function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to forge Public/Private Tokens from RSA to HMAC.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242966 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-23539
**DESCRIPTION:**Auth0 jsonwebtoken could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an unrestricted key type issue. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow legacy keys usage and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242968 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-31484
**DESCRIPTION:**CPAN.pm is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper validation of TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253974 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-15366
**DESCRIPTION:**Ajv (aka Another JSON Schema Validator) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution flaw in the ajv.validate function. By sending a specially-crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185626 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-28363
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 for python is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by improper certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to obtain sensitive information or further compromise the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

12.0.0-12.0.2

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Downloading IBM Cognos Analytics 12.0.3

IBM Cognos Analytics|

11.2.0-11.2.4 FP2

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IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP3

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.x has reached End Of Service April 30, 2024

Workarounds and Mitigations

None