Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-29469, CVE-2022-39160, CVE-2022-38708, CVE-2022-42003, CVE-2022-42004, CVE-2022-43883, CVE-2022-43887, CVE-2022-25647, CVE-2022-36364)

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4. 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 Calcite is a Java-based framework that provides a SQL query engine for processing queries in storage engines (CVE-2022-36364). Google Gson is a Java library that serializes Java objects to JSON and vice versa (CVE-2022-25647). Node.js Redis is a Redis client which provides methods to retrieve and store data (CVE-2021-29469). Faster-XML Jackson is a JSON to Java object conversion API (CVE-2022-42003, CVE-2022-42004). Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Log Injection and Information Disclosure vulnerabilities have also been addressed (CVE-2022-38708, CVE-2022-43887, CVE-2022-43883, CVE-2022-39160).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-36364
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Calcite Avatica could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the JDBC driver. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232360 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-38708
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics could be vulnerable to a Server-Side Request Forgery Attack (SSRF) attack by constucting URLs from user-controlled data . This could enable attackers to make arbitrary requests to the internal network or to the local file system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/234180 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-43887
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics could be vulnerable to sensitive information exposure by passing API keys to log files. If these keys contain sensitive information, it could lead to further attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240450 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-43883
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics could be vulnerable to a Log Injection attack by constructing URLs from user-controlled data. This could enable attackers to make arbitrary requests to the internal network or to the local file system.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240266 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-25647
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Gson is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data. By using the writeReplace() method, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217225 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-29469
**DESCRIPTION:**Node Redis redis module for Node.js is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service flaw in monitor mode. By sending specially-crafted regex input, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/200618 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-39160
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235064 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42004
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in in the BeanDeserializer._deserializeFromArray function. By sending a specially-crafted request using deeply nested arrays, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237660 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42003
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in the primitive value deserializers when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request using deep wrapper array nesting, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237662 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

11.2.x

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Downloading IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4

IBM Cognos Analytics|

11.1.x

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IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 Fix Pack 6

Workarounds and Mitigations

None