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CVE-2024-51466: IBM Cognos Analytics expression language injection

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 36/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.69% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 52.8% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 through 11.2.4 FP4 and 12.0.0 through 12.0.4 is vulnerable to an Expression Language (EL) Injection vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information, consume memory resources, and/or cause the server to crash when using a specially crafted EL statement.

CriticalCVSS 9.0 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

pre-auth RCE

BDU:2024-11551

Published: Dec 20, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.6% · 52th percentile
CWE: CWE-917

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 36 / 40 · 9.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · ibm: 9.0; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ibm	cognos analytics	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cognos_analytics

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

ibm cognos analytics11.2.0 and later · before 11.2.4
ibm cognos analytics12.0.0 and later · before 12.0.4
ibm cognos analytics11.2.4
ibm cognos analytics12.0.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

IBM Cognos Analytics
- 11.2.0 and later · up to and including 11.2.4affected · semver
- 12.0.0 and later · up to and including 12.0.4affected · semver

Same product

ibm: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-4561IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0 and 11.1 DQM API allows submitting of all control requests in unauthenticated sessions.
41Plan
CVE-2021-38945IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.1, 11.2.0, and 11.1.7 could allow a remote attacker to upload arbitrary files, caused by improper content validati
40Plan
CVE-2020-4377IBM Cognos Anaytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data.
37Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-45082Dec 18, 2024 · IBM Cognos Analytics HTTP open redirection
20Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-40695Dec 20, 2024 · IBM Cognos Analytics file upload
32Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-38009Jan 26, 2025 · IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile information disclosure
23Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope