CVE-2020-4685: IBM Cognos Controller

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A low level user of IBM Cognos Controller 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.4.1, and 10.4.2 who has Administration rights to the server where the application is installed, can escalate their privilege from Low level to Super Admin and gain access to Create/Update/Delete any level of user in Cognos Controller. IBM X-Force ID: 186625.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Controller: version 10.3.0 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.4.0 only; version 10.4.1 only; version 10.4.2 only

Published 2020-11-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.