CVE-2016-8960

HIGH

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 user's cookie value from its HTTP request and then reusing it in subsequent requests. IBM Reference #: 1993718.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 67.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (9)
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 Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2
IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1
IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.1
IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2
IBM Corporation/Cognos Business Intelligence 2
Published Mar 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026