CVE-2018-1934
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedIBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 153179.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceIBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that allows an attacker to trick authenticated users into executing unauthorized actions. The high CVSS score (8.8) reflects the potential for significant impact on confidentiality and integrity through malicious requests that the application trusts from authenticated sessions.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 10.2.2CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm IBM Cognos BI versionLocate and inspect the installed version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. This is typically accessible through the Cognos Administration interface under the About section, or by checking version files in the installation directory.Affected if The installed version is exactly 10.2.2 (the only affected version per the provided CVE data)
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Inspect forms for anti-CSRF token presenceUse browser developer tools or a proxy to capture HTTP requests when interacting with state-changing forms in Cognos (such as user management, report scheduling, or configuration panels). Examine the HTML source of these forms to determine if hidden input fields containing unique CSRF tokens are present.Affected if State-changing forms do not contain hidden CSRF token fields, or the same token value is reused across multiple requests or sessions
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Verify SameSite cookie configurationUsing browser developer tools, inspect the session cookies set by the Cognos application. Check the Set-Cookie headers or cookie properties for the SameSite attribute.Affected if Authentication or session cookies do not have the SameSite attribute set, or it is set to None without the Secure flag
The environment is affected only if running exactly version 10.2.2 of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence AND the application lacks anti-CSRF token validation on forms AND does not implement SameSite cookie attributes.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing operations (forms, API endpoints) and validate these tokens server-side. Additionally, configure the application to use SameSite cookie attributes to provide defense-in-depth against CSRF attacks.
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