IBM Cognos Analytics up to 12.1.3-2606251736 Agentic AI Assistant agent.c race condition

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in IBM Cognos Analytics up to 12.1.3-2606251736. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file agent.c of the component Agentic AI Assistant. This manipulation causes race condition. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-15995. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Cognos Analytics up to 12.1.3-2606251736. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file agent.c of the component Agentic AI Assistant. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.3 GA Version with build number through 12.1.3-2606251736 could allow an attacker to obtain incorrect report summary results or cause report-processing failures due to a race condition in the Agentic AI assistant's concurrent request-handling logic when multiple authenticated users submit report-related tasks simultaneously.

The advisory is shared at ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-15995 since 07/16/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2026).

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

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• Business Process Management Software

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• IBM

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• Cognos Analytics

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• 12.1.3-2606251736

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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