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Cognos Analytics is potentially vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228 (Apache Log4j 2 "Log4Shell")
Description

A critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 impacting versions from 2.0-beta9 through 2.12.1 and 2.13.0 through 2.14.1 has been publicly disclosed. The vulnerability has been assigned the identifier CVE-2021-44228.

IBM’s Cognos is included in Flexera Analytics, and is used as a reporting engine for FlexNet Manager Suite and FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. Cognos has been identified as potentially being affected by CVE-2021-44228.

See the following article for additional details about this known issue: Flexera Analytics (Cognos) mitigation for Apache Log4j 2 vulnerability CVE-2021-44228.

 

Fix status
This issue has been fixed in the following release: 2021 R1.4 / Mar 2022 (Cloud).
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Flexera One
Affected functionality
Analytics (Cognos),Security
Deployment type
Cloud
Fixed in
2021 R1.4 / Mar 2022 (Cloud)
Visibility
Guest
URL Name
cognos-analytics-is-potentially-vulnerable-to-cve-2021-44228-apache-log4j-2-log4shell-IOJ-2236946

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Cognos Analytics is potentially vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228 (Apache Log4j 2 "Log4Shell")