VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4034

medium
Published 2013-11-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1 before IF3, 10.1.0 before IF4, 10.1.1 before IF4, 10.2.0 before IF4, 10.2.1 before IF2, and 10.2.1.1 before IF1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38825 remote multiple verified
IBM · 2013-10-11

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence - XML External Entity Information Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence8.4.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.1.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1
ibm ibmcognos_business_intelligence10.2.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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