CVE-2021-38903: IBM Cognos Analytics

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, 11.2.0, and 11.1.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 209691.

Affected products

• IBM Cognos Analytics: version 11.1.7 only; version 11.2.0 only; version 11.2.1 only
• Netapp Oncommand Insight: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.