CVE-2024-56340

IBM Cognos Analytics path traversal

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Feb 28, 2025
Updated: Oct 17, 2025
Reserved: Dec 20, 2024

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

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cognos AnalyticsIBM	11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP5Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183676vendor-advisory
https://github.com/MarioTesoro/vulnerability-research/tree/main/CVE-2024-56340

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