IBM Cognos Business Intelligence CVE-2012-4840 XPath Injection Vulnerability

BID:58264

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence CVE-2012-4840 XPath Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 58264
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2012-4840
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 27 2013 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 27 2013 12:00AM
Credit: Reported by the vendor.
Vulnerable: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence CVE-2012-4840 XPath Injection Vulnerability

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is prone to an XPath-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in a XPath (XML Path Language) query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to access or modify data of an XML document.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 8.4.1 are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence CVE-2012-4840 XPath Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue through a browser.
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