CVE-2022-22364: IBM Cognos Controller security bypass

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-350

Description

IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1, 10.4.2, and 11.0.0 is vulnerable to external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the application to perform server-side DNS lookups or HTTP requests to arbitrary domain names. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker can cause the application server to attack other systems that it can interact with. IBM X-Force ID: 220903.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Controller: 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 11.0.0

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220903
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7149876
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220903
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7149876

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