CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8960

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

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.

Affected configurations

• 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 · not in database (1)

References