Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-36015

Ibm Cognos Controller 11.0.0 – 11.0.1.7

Published
08 December 2025
Modified
10 December 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0026 17th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-36015 is a medium-severity Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input (CWE-1284) vulnerability in Ibm Cognos Controller. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 17th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

IBM Controller 11.1.0 through 11.1.1 and IBM Cognos Controller 11.0.0 through 11.0.1 FP6 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to improper validation of a specified quantity size input.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

ibm
cognos controller
11.0.0 — 11.0.1.7
ibm
controller
11.1.0 — 11.1.2

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
  • SC-6 Resource Availability
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V6.7.2
  • V1.4.2
  • V2.1.1
  • V2.2.1

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires validation of input fields such as quantity/size values, preventing the malformed input that triggers the DoS in CVE-2025-36015.

prevent

Mandates protection against denial-of-service conditions caused by excessive or malformed resource requests, directly mitigating the quantity-size DoS vector.

prevent

Requires the system to manage and limit resource allocation so that oversized quantity inputs cannot exhaust availability, addressing the CWE-1284 impact.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require proper quantity/length validation in input handling.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

detects

Security testing in development can detect missing quantity validation but does not itself implement the control.

prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates input validation for quantity fields, directly preventing CWE-1284.

prevents

Application security requirements explicitly call for validation of size/length inputs, mitigating CWE-1284.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage robust input handling but do not specifically address quantity validation.

prevents

Secure coding standards require explicit checks on numeric quantity inputs, fully addressing CWE-1284.

References