Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-40686

Medium

Published: 23 July 2025

Published
23 July 2025
Modified
06 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 31.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-40686 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting Syntax (CWE-644) vulnerability in Ibm Smartcloud Analytics Log Analysis. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 31.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

IBM SmartCloud Analytics - Log Analysis 1.3.7.0, 1.3.7.1, 1.3.7.2, 1.3.8.0, 1.3.8.1, and 1.3.8.2 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the…

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vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.

CWE(s)
CWE-644

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ibm
smartcloud analytics log analysis
1.3.7.0, 1.3.7.1, 1.3.7.2, 1.3.8.0, 1.3.8.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References