Privilege Escalation in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
CVE-2016-8960
8.8HIGH
Summary
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 is susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which allows lower-privilege users to gain elevated access. This occurs when an attacker intercepts the cookie value of a high-privilege user during an HTTP request. By reusing this cookie in their own requests, the low-privilege user can adopt the permissions of the higher-privilege user, potentially leading to unauthorized actions within the application.
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