CVE-2012-4836

low
Published 2013-03-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
VIR risk
3.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24034373

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21626697

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmcognos_business_intelligence8.4.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1.1
ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.