CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9985

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Mar 08, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM Cognos Server 10.1.1 and 10.2 stores highly sensitive information in log files that could be read by a local user. IBM Reference #: 1999671.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.1.1 (including) 10.1.1 (including)
Cognos_business_intelligence Ibm 10.2 (including) 10.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References