CVE-2019-4716
Published 2019-12-18 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source psirt@us.ibm.com
Summary
CVE-2019-4716 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in IBM Planning Analytics. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by May 3, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. IBM has 8 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 2 of them linked to ransomware.
All 8 known-exploited IBM vulnerabilities →Description
IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.0 through 2.0.8 is vulnerable to a configuration overwrite that allows an unauthenticated user to login as "admin", and then execute code as root or SYSTEM via TM1 scripting. IBM X-Force ID: 172094.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: IBM — Planning Analytics
Name: IBM Planning Analytics Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2022-05-03
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156953/IBM-Cognos-TM1-IBM-Planning-Analytics-Server-Configuration-Overwrite-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/44
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172094
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1127781
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/156953/IBM-Cognos-TM1-IBM-Planning-Analytics-Server-Configuration-Overwrite-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/44
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172094
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1127781

