CVE-2012-4847

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4 and 8.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing a zero-valued byte.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence: 8.4, 8.4.1

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21615445
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79536
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21615445
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79536

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