PT-2012-5607 · Ibm · Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence

Niv Sela · Published 2012-11-14 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-4847

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) versions 8.4 and 8.4.1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by sending a crafted request that contains a zero-valued byte.

Recommendations For versions 8.4 and 8.4.1, consider restricting access to the system to prevent remote authenticated users from sending crafted requests until a fix is available.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4847

Affected Products

Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence

References · 4

• http://ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21615445 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4847 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4847 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79536 · Note