CVE-2026-7884IBM Cognos Analytics versions 12.0.4 and 12.1.3 is affected by security vulnerabilities
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 87% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.0 through 12.1.3 FP1, and 12.0.4 through 12.0.4 FP2 allows a non-privileged user to edit their given name and surname to include malicious JavaScript code. When an administrator later accesses the user account management panel and views that user's permissions, the malicious JavaScript code is executed. This could result in the cookies from the administrator being compromised.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 87% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
- affected 12.1.0 – ≤ 12.1.3 FP1
- affected 12.0.4 – ≤ 12.0.4 FP2
What to do
Solution: IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now. Affected Product(s)Version(s)Fix VersionIBM Cognos Analytics12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3 FP1 12.1.3 FP2 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7283969 IBM Cognos Analytics12.0.4 - 12.0.4 FP2 12.0.4 FP3 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7269268
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7287209 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-78138 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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