CVE-2013-2978: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the server in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.2, and 10.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read files by leveraging the Report Author privilege, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2988.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence: version 8.4.1 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.1.1 only; version 10.2 only; version 10.2.1 only

Published 2013-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.