CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8960

Published: Mar 27, 2017 | Modified: Mar 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege user by intercepting the higher-privilege users cookie value from its HTTP request and then reusing it in subsequent requests. IBM Reference #: 1993718.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.2.1 (including) 10.2.1 (including)
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.2.1.1 (including) 10.2.1.1 (including)
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.2.2 (including) 10.2.2 (including)

References