CVE-2019-4231

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 159356.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Analytics: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.12; from 11.1.0 before 11.1.4.0; 11.0.13, 11.0.13-fixpack1, 11.0.13-fixpack2 — fixed in 11.1.4.0
OnCommand Insight: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159356
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0003/
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1138588
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159356
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0003/
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1138588

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