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01 Record

CVE-2020-4388

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack by failing to catch exceptions in a servlet also exposing debug information could also be used in future attacks.

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: ibm
CNA base score6.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/C:L/A:L/S:U/UI:N/I:N/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
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02 Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack by failing to catch exceptions in a servlet also exposing debug information could also be used in future attacks.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 69.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.2 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2020-10-12 13:20Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-17 00:06Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2019-12-30
Assigning CNA
ibm
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/C:L/A:L/S:U/UI:N/I:N/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:U
Weaknesses
  • CWE-755Improper Handling of Exceptional ConditionsClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
ec676cbf04c6ce26b123427270f903a154d2c7dc74e88de05f43f4732c2d18d4

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
IBMCognos Analytics11.0, 11.1—

06 References