IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0/11.1 Request CPU Exhaustion denial of service

A vulnerability was found in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0/11.1 (Business Process Management Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a denial of service vulnerability (CPU Exhaustion). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was released 09/17/2019. The advisory is available at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-4183 since 01/03/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/18/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 141930.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

VulDB Base Score: ≈4.3
VulDB Temp Score: ≈4.3
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Class: Denial of service / CPU Exhaustion (CWE-400)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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01/03/2019 CVE assigned
09/17/2019 +257 days Advisory disclosed
09/18/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
09/18/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: ibm.com

Advisory: exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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CVE: CVE-2019-4183 (🔒)
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Created: 09/18/2019 11:17 AM
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