XSS in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

CVE-2012-4836

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that is not properly handled during rendering of stored data.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.3th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 59.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-4836: held from 0.009 to 0.009.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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