CVE-2016-0254

MEDIUM

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence <10.2 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 and 10.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources and cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 110563.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22004036
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98971
VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110563

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0190
EPSS Percentile 76.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-611
Status published
Products (10)
IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1
IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2
IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1
IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.1
IBM/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2
ibm/cognos_business_intelligence 10.1.1
ibm/cognos_business_intelligence 10.2
ibm/cognos_business_intelligence 10.2.1
ibm/cognos_business_intelligence 10.2.1.1
ibm/cognos_business_intelligence 10.2.2
Published Jun 07, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026