CVE-2016-8960

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
IBM
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 March 2017

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2

Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1

Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.1

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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