A vulnerability was found in IBM Planning Analytics 2.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Avatar Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability exsists in IBM Planning Analytics 2.0 whereby avatars in Planning Analytics Workspace could be modified by other users without authorization to do so. IBM X-Force ID: 186019.

The weakness was released 08/19/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-4648 since 12/30/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/20/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 160047.

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• Planning Analytics

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• 2.0

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• commercial

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