CVE-2018-1721

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-91

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or cause the web server to make HTTP requests to arbitrary domains. IBM X-Force ID: 147369.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Analytics: 11.0.0, 11.1.0

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147369
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1074144
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147369
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1074144

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