CVE-2020-4561: IBM Cognos Analytics

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 DQM API allows submitting of all control requests in unauthenticated sessions. This allows a remote attacker who can access a valid CA endpoint to read and write files to the Cognos Analytics system. IBM X-Force ID: 183903.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: version 11.0.0 only; version 11.1.0 only
• Netapp Oncommand Insight: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.