CVE-2014-0854: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The server in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1, 10.1 before IF6, 10.1.1 before IF5, 10.2 before IF7, 10.2.1 before IF4, and 10.2.1.1 before IF4 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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; version 10.2.1.1 only

Published 2014-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.