CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-0254

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-06-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-611

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References