PT-2013-4073 · Ibm · Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence

Published 2013-08-27 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2013-2978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) versions 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 10.2.1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users with the Report Author privilege to read files due to an absolute path traversal vulnerability in the server.

Recommendations For IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) versions 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 10.2.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2978

Affected Products

Ibm Cognos Business Intelligence

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2978 · Security Note
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21645566 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2978 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83971 · Note