CVE-2019-4173

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2019-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

IBM Cognos Controller 10.2.0, 10.2.1, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, and 10.4.0 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the HTTP OPTIONS method, aka Optionsbleed. By sending an OPTIONS HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read secret data from process memory and obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 158878.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Controller: 10.2.0, 10.2.1, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10886913
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158878
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10886913
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158878

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