CVE-2012-4840 (GCVE-0-2012-4840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-02 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:50
VLAI
Summary
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) 8.4.1 before IF1, 10.1 before IF2, 10.1.1 before IF2, and 10.2 before IF1 allows remote attackers to conduct XPath injection attacks, and call XPath extension functions, via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
ibm
References
Date Public
2013-02-27 00:00
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