CVE detail

CVE-2020-4685 — CVE-2020-4685

Published 2020-11-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor ibm · Product cognos_controller · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.2

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0144

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

71.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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