CVE-2021-20461: IBM Cognos Analytics

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Analytics 10.0 and 11.1 is susceptible to a weakness in the implementation of the System Appearance configuration setting. An attacker could potentially bypass business logic to modify the appearance and behavior of the application. IBM X-Force ID: 196770.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: from 11.0.0, before 11.0.13 (fixed in 11.0.13); from 11.1.0, before 11.1.7 (fixed in 11.1.7); version 11.0.13 only; version 11.1.7 only
• Netapp Oncommand Insight: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.