Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Controller is vulnerable to privilege escalation (CVE-2020-4685)

Summary

IBM Cognos Controller is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-4685
**DESCRIPTION:**A low level user of Cognos Controller who has Administration rights to the server where the application is installed, can escalate their privilege from Low level to Super Admin and gain access to Create/Update/Delete any level of user in Cognos Controller.
CVSS Base score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186625 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.2 On-Premise and Cloud

IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1 On-Premise and Cloud

IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.0

IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.1

IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for versions listed as soon as practical:

**IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.2  
  
**[Download IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.2 IF7](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6348246> "Download IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.2 IF7" )**  
  
****IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1**  
  
[Download IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1 IF8](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6403970> "Download IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1 IF8" )  
  
**IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.0**,**IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0**  
  
[I](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6339125> "IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0 FP1 IF15, 10.3.1 IF15, 10.4.0 IF10, and 10.4.1 IF6" )[BM Cognos Controller 10.3.0 FP1 IF15, 10.3.1 IF15 and 10.4.0 IF10](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6339125> "IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0 FP1 IF15, 10.3.1 IF15, 10.4.0 IF10, and 10.4.1 IF6" )  
  
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**IBM Cognos Controller on Cloud customers: This has been addressed on all applicable Cloud environments . No further action is required.  

Workarounds and Mitigations

None