Security Bulletin
Summary
Security vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP1 These vulnerabilities have also been previously addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP6 where applicable. The following 3rd party components are used by IBM Cognos Analytics: Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library (XFID: 216835) Node-notifier is a node.js module for sending cross platform native notifications (CVE-2020-7789). Node-minimist is an argument parser for Node.js (CVE-2020-7598, CVE-2021-44906). Node.js unset-value is a Node.js module that deletes nested properties from an object using dot notation (XFID: 220063). IBM Cognos Analytics is affected but not classified as vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Apache Shiro (CVE-2022-40664). IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP1 has upgraded Apache Shiro to version 1.11.0.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2020-7789
DESCRIPTION: node-notifier could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper sanitization of options params. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/193001 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-2020-7598
DESCRIPTION: minimist could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a prototype pollution flaw. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to add or modify properties of Object.prototype.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177780 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2021-44906
DESCRIPTION: Node.js Minimist module could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in setKey() function in the index.js script. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/222195 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)
IBM X-Force ID: 216835
DESCRIPTION: Apache Lucene is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specific regular expression query, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216835 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)
IBM X-Force ID: 220063
DESCRIPTION: Node.js unset-value module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a prototype pollution flaw in the unset function in index.js. By adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a __proto__ or constructor payload, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220063 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)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Cognos Analytics | 11.2.x |
| IBM Cognos Analytics | 11.1.x |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.
| Product(s) | Version(s) | Remediation/Fix/Instructions |
| IBM Cognos Analytics |
11.2.x | |
| IBM Cognos Analytics |
11.1.x |
This Security Bulletin is applicable to IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP1 (On-Prem).
Remediation for IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud 11.2.4 On-Demand (multi-tenant) will be completed during the next scheduled maintenance weekend.
IBM Cognos Analytics Cloud Hosted (Dedicated) customers can begin coordinating upgrades to IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 FP1. Please contact IBM Support to schedule an upgrade.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
24 Mar 2023: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Modified date:
24 March 2023
UID
ibm16965290