CVE-2018-1721: IBM Cognos Analytics

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or cause the web server to make HTTP requests to arbitrary domains. IBM X-Force ID: 147369.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: version 11.0.0 only; version 11.1.0 only

Published 2019-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.