Account compromise via weak default password requirements
Published Dec 3, 2021 · Updated Sep 17, 2024
Weak password requirements in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and 11.2.0 allow remote attackers to compromise user accounts. The default account-password policy accepts passwords without enforcing strength requirements; IBM has not disclosed the specific validation logic. Exploitation requires guessing or obtaining a weak account password and exposes only the access and data available to that account.
Summary
What happened
Weak password requirements in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and 11.2.0 allow remote attackers to compromise user accounts. The default account-password policy accepts passwords without enforcing strength requirements; IBM has not disclosed the specific validation logic. Exploitation requires guessing or obtaining a weak account password and exposes only the access and data available to that account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-20470
- Published
- Dec 3, 2021
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Vendor
- IBM
- Product
- Cognos Analytics
- Classifications
- CWE-521, T1110
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 3, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=11.1.7
- Affected versionversion=11.2.0
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