What is CVE-2019-4183?

CVE-2019-4183 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Cognos Analytics, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-09-17.

How severe is CVE-2019-4183?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in IBM Cognos Analytics

CVE-2019-4183

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0, and 11.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack that could allow a remote user to send specially crafted requests that would consume all available CPU and memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 158973.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2019-09-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.035 (88.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000

Affected products

IBM Cognos Analytics — versions 11.0, 11.1
IBM Cognos Analytics — versions 11.0.0, 11.1.0
NetApp Oncommand Insight

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1073530 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158973 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191009-0001/ (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-4183?: CVE-2019-4183 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Cognos Analytics, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-09-17.
How severe is CVE-2019-4183?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.